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Academia Is Only As Free As Powerful Donors Allow It To Be
Anyone who imagines there is something resembling academic freedom in the US, or elsewhere in the West for that matter, needs to read this article in the Intercept on an extraordinary – or possibly not...
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How Black Parents Got Cops Out of Oakland Schools
Four years ago, as a result of more than a decade of organizing led by the Black Organizing Project (BOP), a group of students, parents, teachers, and allies united to achieve a historic win in...
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In Defense of Brazil’s Public Universities (Again)
Approaching 60 days, the strike by the faculty of public federal universities (UFs) and federal high school institutes (IFs) in Brazil merits attention for its resilience and scope. In Congress,...
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How Democratizing Universities Would Supercharge The Pro-Palestine Divestment...
The pro-Palestinian divestment movement has erupted across the country, after over a decade of bubbling and stirring under the guidance of organizations like Students for Justice in Palestine. Students...
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The Neoliberal University Faces A Crisis: This Generation Could Change...
There can be little doubt that neoliberalism has undermined, if not crippled, the notion of higher education as a democratic public sphere — a protective and courageous space where students can speak,...
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Big Union Win in Virginia Schools where Bargaining Suddenly Legal
Education unions just won a massive victory in the fight to bring collective bargaining rights to Virginia’s public sector. Workers at the Fairfax County Public Schools voted this week to unionize,...
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After Years of Failed Education Reforms, Chicago Embraces Community Schools
“Until now, we haven’t even tried to make big-city school districts work, especially for children of color,” Jhoanna Maldonado said when Our Schools asked her to describe what Chicago Mayor Brandon...
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Columbia Task Force Finally Weighs In: Yes, Anti-Zionism Is Antisemitism
On Sunday, some current faculty members at Columbia University learned through a news article that all new students and faculty at the school will be mandated to go through an orientation on...
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Juneteenth: Teaching Outside the Textbook
Juneteenth — June 19th, also known as Emancipation Day — is one of the commemorations of people seizing their freedom in the United States. Celebrate. But We Can’t Teach? This beautiful tradition of...
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Project 2025: The US Far-Right Plan to Undermine Democracy and Rights Globally
Last month, populist leaders from around the world gathered for the Europa Viva 24 summit in Madrid. Headlines from the event were dominated by the big names in attendance – Argentinian president...
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SF State Students ‘Won’t Stop Until Palestine Is Free’
Ziniab Imtair is a student at San Francisco State University (SFSU) and president of the General Union of Palestine Students (GUPS) there. She was one of the core organizers of SFSU’s two-week Students...
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Holocaust Scholar Raz Segal Loses Job Offer for Saying Israel Is Committing...
We speak with Israeli American Jewish scholar Raz Segal about the University of Minnesota’s move to rescind a job offer over his comments early in the war on Gaza, when he characterized the Israeli...
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An Eco-Socialist Education Agenda
Our education system is a mess. The reason is obvious: it’s being eroded by capitalism. This erosion takes many forms, from the privatization of schooling itself to altering curricula to meet the...
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Rewilding the American Serengeti
On a blustery morning in mid-November, 31-year-old Dawn Thomas approaches a male bison. His eyes are wide with fear, his body held in place by a restraint machine. As Thomas slowly reaches her hands...
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For-Profit Charter Schools Provide an Entryway for Private Investors to...
Ever since charter schools were created in the 1990s, there’s been a persistent question1 of whether or not the schools introduce an element of profit-making into the public education sector. In...
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We Can’t Win the School Culture Wars
Review of The Education Wars: A Citizen’s Guide and Defense Manual by Jennifer C. Berkshire and Jack Schneider (The New Press, 2024) There’s a charter school in my Massachusetts town that markets...
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Demographic Dividend in Doldrums as Double Speak Reigns
India’s famed demographic dividend is currently up and down the forlorn street. The so-erudite prime minister often tells them how to take examinations, but he forgot to tell the examiners how to plug...
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SOAS Student Encampment Protests Uni’s Complicity in Gaza Genocide
The student intifada has reached the UK. At the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), students set up an encampment in solidarity with Gaza, taking particular aim at the university’s...
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The Right-Wing Network Manufacturing the War Against Higher Education
A recent white paper by Isaac Kamola, director of the Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom, details the ongoing culture-war backlash against higher education in America, largely in response to...
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How to Avoid the Sixth Extinction
“I cannot entirely say that totems have helped in our ecosystem and biodiversity conservation,” says Kgosi Kgari Sechele III, when I ask him about the connections between spiritual beliefs and his...
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