Chile: Nationwide Student Protests For Free Education
...man, 24, were both shot after allegedly trying to put graffiti and posters on the outside of a building. The 20-year-old son of the building’s owner was taken into custody by police for [...]
South African Students Win Freeze On Tuition Increases
...for the government to drop steep charges levied against dozens of demonstrators who were detained. Patrick Bond, professor of Political Economy at the University of the Witwatersrand in [...]
Students Vote To Remove Confederate Symbol From Campus
...rino said. DEJA SAMUEL Members of pro-segregationist and white supremacist groups protested at Ole Miss after students held a rally to take down the Mississippi state flag on [...]
Group Of NYC High Schools Ditched Most Regents Exams
...hese less-than-lofty numbers. The 28 schools in the New York Performance Standards Consortium network boast graduation, college-going, and college retention rates that routinely top city, [...]
Colleges Flush With Cash Saddle Poorest Students With Debt
...has decreased significantly in the past five years. The school also enrolls a greater percentage of Pell Grant recipients than other elite schools. Finally, NYU points out that its endowment [...]
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 [...]
Social Injustice Done To Adjunct Faculty: Call To Action
...or part-time students is $1,305 per credit hour, or $3,915 for a three-credit class. An adjunct faculty member at this institution is paid $3,000 per semester to teach a [...]
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 [...]
The “Longue Durée” Of The Québec Spring
...rotest across the hemisphere, and the eventual defeat of the FTAA. In 2003, immediately after the election of a “shock” neoliberal government in Québec, strikes and protests [...]
Divest Harvard Protesters Arrested At Investment Building
...in the building, which houses HMC, the University’s investment arm that manages its $37.6 billion endowment . Members of Divest Harvard identified the arrested protesters as Naima [...]
MIT Climate Sit-In Ends As University Agrees To Work With Students
...to Zuber, all the companies they’ve talked to “either have or are working towards” such business plans. She would not disclose the names of the companies in these [...]
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 [...]
Forged In Activism: An Interview With Makayla Gilliam-Price
...ear and a half, has already created a legacy for itself. I feel like we are establishing accountability. Our political legitimacy is always increasing because we have stayed true since day [...]
Univ. Of Illinois Graduate Student Workers Strike, Occupy President’s Office
.... of I.’s undergraduate senate expressed support for the graduate workers. In an open letter over the weekend, 33 senators urged Cangellaris, the provost, to agree to the union’s [...]
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 [...]