Occupation Of University Of Amsterdam Defies Market Education
...ol of Economics, returned home to an occupation at his own university. Students occupied the central meeting room of the administration at LSE, the Vera Anstey Suite. They are [...]
US Students Hold Nationwide Protests Against High Tuition Fees
...on at four-year public universities has risen by 42 percent, and student debt totals nearly US$1.3 trillion, according to the College Board. Students, [...]
Parents And School Districts Sue Over Pennsylvania School Funding
...public education,” as mandated by the state constitution based on the legislature’s own standards. Petitioners are asking for a court order that will force the legislature to [...]
Quebec’s Strike Wave Rolls Toward A Showdown
...ng to stop $70 million in cuts to higher education and are instead demanding that the government tax the rich, invest in the public sector and guarantee good-paying jobs that provide services [...]
Medical Student National Actions For ‘Medicare For All’
...Darius Fullmer [darius.fullmer@gmail.com] WISCONSIN University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health: Sarah Zoutendam [zoutendam@wisc.edu] and Zeeshan Yacoob [yacoob@wisc.edu] [...]
Privilege And The Working Class
...e solidarity necessary for significant victories and social change. The politics of privilege have come full circle. The privilege ideology circuit began among Stalinists, who brought [...]
Why Students Are Marching For Better Wages
...everyone, not only students who are current or future low-wage workers. Dhruv Pathak, a junior at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro who earned minimum wage at a [...]
Race Dramatically Skews Discipline, Even In Elementary School
...Nelsen. “If someone’s being disrespectful in class, we contact the parents — no matter who the students are. It’s not racial, it’s not gender. [...]
Striking Grad Students: What Its Like Living On $15,000/Year
...eant that I’ve had to live in housing that is what I would consider substandard. I had to look for a very long time to find something that was not only reasonable in price but also [...]
Columbia Students Urge Divestment From Private Prison
...School commitments constantly vie for students’ attention, and graduation throws leadership into upheaval every year. These challenges are large enough that many schools [...]
The Children Left Behind
...nts don’t get pushed out of school, high-stakes testing fails to increase their knowledge or ability to succeed in college. “Kids are not getting an education,” he says. The [...]
BDS: The Amazing Things We Achieved In 2014
...rowth of boycott. Bolivian President Evo Morales, Fidel Castro and a series of other high-profile figures from central and Latin America call for BDS action and government sanctions. The [...]
Penn Student Questioned In Dorm By Police Over Ferguson Posts
...in Ferguson, MO and Staten Island, NY not to indict police officers who gunned down unarmed African American men, have taken a new, though rather historically familiar, twist. Laura [...]
Hong Kong Protests: Occupy Central Founders To Surrender To Police
...of the three protest sites in the city last week, and were expected to move against the other two sites in the coming days, but student protesters insisted that they would [...]
Hong Kong Protests Escalate With Increased Police Conflicts
...d. “It is a common belief of organisers that it is time to get off the streets and take the campaign for democracy forward to a more sustainable format,” said a source close to the [...]