Photos: Today's American Teenagers. Depending on the size of the school, the labels and roles given to kids can begin well before the teen years.

Labels play a big role in conversations at school. We have “struggling students,” “students who suffer from trauma,” “gifted students,” and “special education students.” On one end ...

Inside the Classroom How One Student Dealt with Labels in School. Community organizer Mario Salinas and his mom, Stella Mireles-Walters, said they had to fight labels and a “one-size-fits-all ...

Considering the socioeconomic, demographic and resource-level differences at each school, there couldn’t be a “one-size-fits-all” approach to measuring school success, said Christy Sainz, an ...