New State Law Will Lead To The Privatization Of Schools
...ey City, Newark and Paterson, N.J.; Memphis and Nashville, Tenn.; Detroit; and in Georgia. All of these districts have majority-minority student populations. Milwaukee Public [...]
High-Stakes Testing Is A Social Justice Issue
...ertel of Stanford University says using tests scores to evaluate teachers is “sorting mostly on noise” because of the tests’ unreliability and inconsistency. Because low-test [...]
Student Activist Victory: U Mass Divests From Fossil Fuel
...ant inception and reflects our commitment to take on the environmental challenges that confront us all,” said UMass President Marty Meehan. “Important societal change often begins [...]
Strikes And Protests Mount Against French Labour Law
...s for allegedly assaulting riot police during a peaceful occupation of the town of Amiens by the #UpAllNight movement on April 28. Prosecutors are demanding a five-year prison sentence. [...]
Denver Teachers’ Strike Was A Rejection Of Education ‘Reform’
...bilities, and longevity. ProComp is a creation of the education reform ideology which believes that the reason low-income students struggle in schools is because teachers [...]
Life As A Drone Operator: ‘Ever Step On Ants?’
...ey look like they are up to no good, the student replied. Would you act on that? the instructor asked. Sure, the student said. Haas immediately pulled him [...]
UNC Student Who Poured Blood And Ink On Silent Sam Confederate Statue Found Guilty
.... Chapel Hill Mayor Pam Hemminger and Police Chief Chris Blue also testified that the statue has created a public safety issue for the campus and town, and they have asked for it to be [...]
College Students From The Korea University Student Association Entered US Embassy Residence
...lphones or using violence against the students. “Give me my cellphone! Why are you taking my cellphone? You must be crazy.” Male employee is using excessive force [...]
Studying Beyond Education For A World Beyond Capitalism
...ve study organization called the Experimental College of the Twin Cities (EXCO). The original Experimental College was founded at San Francisco State College in 1966. By appropriating money [...]
Student Climate Activists Confront Board Of Education
Student climate advocacy group MoCo Students on Climate held a rally Friday to demand climate action from Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS). [...]
Stand With Student Climate Strikers
...re. Then on Monday, September 23rd, young people are joining people of all ages for a historic mobilization to #ShutDownDC for climate justice. The New York City Department of Education has [...]
5 Ways The Economy Is Stacked Against Young People
...attaining a college degree leaps annually, with aggregate student debt now topping $1.5 trillion. Savings that could’ve gone to a down payment on a house, starting a [...]
Lesson From History: How Bronze Age Rulers Simply Canceled Debts
...xample of Orwellian doublespeak engineered by public relations factotums for bondholders and banks. The real hazard to every economy is the tendency for debts to grow beyond the ability of [...]
Tuition Hikes, Nova Scotia Students Occupy Finance Minister’s Office
...acewood Drive. “We’re here because this government has proposed the most radical changes to tuition policy in our lifetime, the total deregulation of fees,” said John Hutton, [...]
Oakland Teachers Strike For Better Pay, Many Students Stay Away From Class
...r out of students’ safety, their union said. Students interviewed at McClymonds, Oakland, Oakland Tech and Skyline high schools reported little learning [...]