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Conservatives Want to Destroy Public Schools. Communities are Fighting Back.
TULSA, OKLA. — Ashley Daly still gets angry thinking about the first Oklahoma state board of education meeting she attended. It was August 2022 and the board was preparing to downgrade the...
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The Right Is Passing Bills That Ban the Teaching of Empathy and Care in Schools
Between 2021 and early 2023, at least 25 states saw bills introduced into their legislatures to remove social and emotional learning (SEL) from public school curricula. While most failed, the bills...
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The Community Schools Movement Is Running Headlong Into Florida Governor Ron...
“I do what I think is best for kids,” said Lauren Leto, a career public school educator at Brandon High School in Hillsborough County, Florida. “That’s my hill I’m ready to die on,” she told Our...
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After 49 Days, the Longest Adjunct Strike in U.S. History Comes to a Close
The longest adjunct strike in U.S. history ended this week after part-time faculty at Columbia College Chicago voted overwhelmingly in favor of ratifying a new four-year contract that will grant them...
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Ivy League Presidents at Congress Hearing Threw Student Protesters Under the Bus
The United States Congress received international attention in December for their heated cross-examinations of university presidents on the topic of campus antisemitism. The spectacle fueled the...
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Education Doesn’t Solve the Pay Gap. Experts Say They’re Not Surprised.
Education does not solve the pay gap between men and women, data from the U.S. Census Bureau found, and the higher-paying the field, the greater the difference. That disparity is unsurprising to...
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Palestine Exception: U.S. Colleges Suppress Free Speech, Academic Freedom for...
We look at the “Palestine exception to free speech” on U.S. college campuses, where students and faculty face backlash and professional retribution for speaking up in defense of Palestinian rights amid...
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Who Funds Canary Mission? James Bamford on Group That Doxxes Students & Profs...
Longtime investigative journalist James Bamford’s latest piece for The Nation looks at Canary Mission, a shadowy pro-Israel group that publishes the photos and personal details of students who take...
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Queer Louisianans Are Fighting Book Bans—And Winning
ST. TAMMANY PARISH, LA.— The governing board of St. Tammany Parish Library is meeting one August evening in the squint-inducing fluorescence of council chambers. The agenda includes the summer reading...
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New Massachusetts ‘Tax the Rich’ Law Raises $1.5 Billion for Free School...
A new “millionaire’s tax” in Massachusetts was expected to generate $1 billion in revenue last year to help pay for public education, infrastructure, and early childcare programs, but projections were...
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Democratic Socialists Are Running for School Board — and Winning
Whenever the far-right gains political traction in America, it’s usually at least partly due to an unglamorous, relatively inexpensive tactic: running for school board. Throwing their energy into local...
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Palestine, the Harvard Controversy, and Attacks on Academic Freedom
Norman Finkelstein discusses Palestine, the Harvard controversy and attacks on academic freedom with Marc Lamont Hill.
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Claudine Gay Faced Racism and Zionist Ire — She Also Failed Palestinian Students
On January 2, 2024, Claudine Gay became the shortest-serving president of Harvard University. What could have been a presidential tenure of transformative actions befitting of the hopeful promises of...
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Israel’s War on Education in Gaza
South Africa’s application to the International Court of Justice to institute proceedings against Israel for its genocidal attack on Gaza makes for a chilling assessment of grievous violations of...
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Education is Anarchy
Teachers are not born as teachers; teachers are inspired by their teachers. Although there is competition for the title ‘the oldest profession’ from what may be deemed less salubrious vocations,...
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The Uber Rich Are Funding “National School Choice Week” to Attack Public Schools
The last week of every January, right-wing groups like Charles Koch’s Americans for Prosperity promote “National School Choice Week” (NSCW). Unlike other commemorative national weeks or months — such...
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North Carolina’s Legislature Wants to Destroy Public Schools
Susan Book says that, in theory, she “should be the poster child for private school choice” because of the “hell” her family went through at her son Emerson’s Wake County, North Carolina, public...
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The Decline Of The Humanities Studies Around The World Is An Enormous Risk...
According to Statistics Canada, student enrolment in the humanities has been declining since 2008. For all postsecondary students, humanities enrolments have dropped by 50 percent over the past 30...
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Who Are the ‘Moms’ for Liberty?
The Moms for Liberty (M4L) webpage states, “Our founders are Tiffany and Tina, moms on a mission to stoke the fires of liberty.” But in truth, the founders are Tiffany Justice, Tina Descovich, and...
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The War on Education—in Gaza and at Home
On January 17, after having first occupied it as a military base and interrogation center, the Israeli army employed scores of landmines to blow up Israa University, the last institution of higher...
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