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Neoliberal Bureaucracy: Making the Left Look Bad
No one prints the syllabus for a college class anymore. They’re multi-page tomes, too long to print, and they’re usually posted online. A modern syllabus is essentially a legal document, full of...
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“What Did You Learn in School Today?” And, Was Ms Brown Fired?
“Through the centuries, the Republic that eventuated in North America has maintained a maximum of chutzpah and minimum of awareness in forging a creation myth that sees slavery and dispossession not as...
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The Decimation of Gaza’s Academia is ‘Impossible to Quantify’
Dr. Refaat Alareer was a good friend of mine. A poet, writer, and prominent activist for the Palestinian cause, Refaat taught English literature and poetry for many years at the Islamic University of...
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The Right’s Push to Whitewash History Is a Precursor to Fascism
As the 2023-2024 academic year ended in June, far right attacks by politicians and university administrators foreshadowed the troubling challenges that students and faculty will face as public and...
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Academic Climate Science Funding Has a Big Problem
Record-breaking temperatures and billion-dollar climate disasters occurring every three weeks in 2024 have even climate skeptics in the United States scratching their sweaty heads. Climate change is...
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Middle East Studies Association, Committee on Academic Freedom: Letter to New...
Linda G. MillsPresident, New York Universitylinda.mills@nyu.edu Georgina DopicoProvost, New York Universitygeorgina.dopico@nyu.edu Martin DorphExecutive Vice President, New York Universitymd121@nyu.edu...
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College Administrators Spent Summer Break Dreaming Up Ways to Squash Gaza...
As students and faculty in the U.S. return to campuses for the fall semester, there are innumerable reasons to continue demonstrating against institutional complicity with Israel’s genocidal war on...
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Knowledge Is Power. Gaza War Supporters Don’t Want Students to Have Both.
With nearly 18 million students on U.S. college campuses this fall, defenders of the war on Gaza don’t want to hear any backtalk. Silence is complicity, and that’s the way Israel’s allies like it. For...
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“Campus Has Become Unrecognizable”: Columbia Prof. Franke Faces Firing After...
Columbia University law professor Katherine Franke last appeared on Democracy Now! in January to discuss an attack on Columbia’s campus targeting pro-Palestinian student activists with a foul-smelling...
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How Does Israel Justify Genocide? It Starts in the Schools.
In The Black Image in the White Mind, historian George M. Frederickson writes, “In the years immediately before and after 1800, white Americans often revealed by their words and actions that they...
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Chicago Teachers Want to Transform Their City into a ‘System of Care’—Will...
There was an ironic moment in former President Barack Obama’s speech at the 2024 Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Chicago when he brought up the passing of his wife Michelle’s mother Marian...
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Why Education?
Education. Just the term itself – for those of us not in dire poverty, being sanctioned, bombed or in climate ravaged areas who had the privilege of at least having the choice to attend a school – will...
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We Need Public Education to Help Us Address the Challenges We Face, But It’s...
Over the past few decades, humanity has embarked on an unprecedented trajectory of providing public education to learners in schools and learning centers across the globe. Collectively we have accepted...
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After The Encampments
On April 24th, I entered Harvard Yard for a rally. In my eight years as a PhD student and graduate labor organizer at the university, I had joined gatherings under the John Harvard statue too many...
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The Pentagon Goes to School
The divestment campaigns launched last spring by students protesting Israel’s mass slaughter in Gaza brought the issue of the militarization of American higher education back into the spotlight. Of...
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Paulo Freire’s Legacy And The Necessity of Critical Pedagogy in Dark Times
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world –Nelson Mandela Paulo Freire, the radical Brazilian educator, would have turned 103 on September 19, 2025. Freire was not...
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Assembly of First Nations (AFN) Calls for Action to Advance Reconciliation on...
On September 30th, the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) National Chief Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak acknowledged the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, also known as Orange Shirt Day, and is urging...
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Fascism on Trial: Education and the Possibility of Democracy
Henry A. Giroux and Anthony R. DiMaggio (2024) Fascism on Trial: Education and the Possibility of Democracy, Bloomsbury, London and New York: Bloomsbury. This is an important book for a pivotal time....
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Student Protests and the Corporatisation and Militarisation of Higher Education
The long-simmering crisis over Israel’s genocide of Palestinians has reached a breaking point. Campus protests in solidarity with Gaza have erupted across North America, spanning at least 45 US states,...
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A Victory Within Reach: Realizing Teacher Unionism’s Progressive Potential in...
From his grave, Albert Shanker, or more accurately, the machine he built, controls the largest teachers union in the world, the United Federation of Teachers (UFT), which represents about 200,000 New...
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How Israel Has Made Trauma a Weapon of War
A slick, high-priced television production. Speeches from top officials. A live audience of thousands. A unified show of collective sorrow and military resolve. That is how the Israeli government hoped...
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Campuses Are Pulling Out All the Stops to Crush Palestine Solidarity This Fall
This semester at U.S. universities, campuses are being transformed from centers of struggle against the genocide in Gaza to epicenters of repression against student activism. University...
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Chalking Bans and ID Checks at Protests Repress Palestine Solidarity on Campus
As the genocide in Gaza rages on, U.S. universities welcomed students, faculty and staff back this fall by rolling out a red carpet of repression. The dedication to stifling pro-Palestine speech and...
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Jewish Students Mark Sukkot Holiday With Calls to End Israel’s Genocide in Gaza
Several Jewish-led student groups are marking the holiday of Sukkot on campuses across the country by constructing small, temporary structures called sukkahs and adorning them with messages of...
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‘He’s Not Kidding,’ Advocates Warn as Trump Threatens to Defund Schools for...
Education advocates implored voters to take Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s latest comments on public schools on Friday after his appearance on the Fox News morning show “Fox &...
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Why Are Young Working-Class Men More ‘Conservative’?
It has been a safe assumption for generations that young people tend to be more liberal than their elders. However, in today’s United States, some of the conventional wisdom around age and ideology is...
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California Law Mandates That Public School Children Be Taught About State’s...
From the time the Europeans arrived on American shores, the U.S. government authorized more than 1,500 wars and attacks on Indigenous people and at the conclusion of the “Indian wars” in the late 19th...
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Paulo Freire and the Enemies of Justice
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” – Nelson Mandela Paulo Freire, the radical Brazilian educator, would have turned 103 on September 19, 2024. Freire was not...
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The Crisis of the Neoliberal University and the Need for a Working Class...
This past year in the U.S., a new chapter in class struggle has been written. Students, many from the Palestinian diaspora, anti-Zionist Jewish people, leftists, and people of conscience of all stripes...
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Billionaires Who Aim to “Disrupt” Education May Get a Chance Even If Trump Loses
If reelected U.S. president, Donald Trump, echoing other Republicans, has said he would shut down the Department of Education. All signs point toward a second Trump term expanding school privatization...
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