Latest Education

• Bader: How Colleges Sideline Sexual Abuse Complaints

  "Anything to Avoid a Scandal"
• Research Committee: NYU and Columbia University’s IDA-Pentagon Connection

  Neither university administrators nor university professors in New York City should be helping to develop more deadly weapons for the U.S. permanent war machine
• Jaffe: Graduate Student Workers Organize Against Sexual Harassment

  The struggle against sexual harassment belongs in the union because it is part of the broader fight against the increased neoliberalization of academia
• Chávez: A Progressive Democrat Promises to Revolutionize Education

  Though education is at the heart of Garcia’s campaign, he hasn’t shied away from his identity and speaking out about the racial dynamics in the state
• Ravitch: Bill Gates’s Disastrous Teacher Evaluation Project

  The cost was astronomical. Across the seven sites over half a billion dollars were spent
• Au: Massive, Anti-Democratic Model of Education Reform

  Interview on Gates' educational failure
• Peterson: Transforming Teacher Unions in a Post-Janus World

  We are witnessing the rebirth of a struggle “about all workers, social justice, working conditions, and also what kind of society we want to live in.”
• Brooks: Before It All Melts Away

  The negotiable issues vary by state, but contracts could potentially limit class size, lock in wage scales and health benefits, limit standardized tests, define the evaluation and tenure process, and establish protections against arbitrary discipline
• Capeloto: What’s wrong with secret donor agreements?

  George Mason University President Ángel Cabrera acknowledged this month that his school gave the Charles Koch Foundation “some influence” over hiring and evaluating faculty
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  Giroux: Striking Teachers Beat Back Neoliberalism’s War on Public Schools

  The struggle over public education has ignited new modes of criticism that contain the potential to build a mass movement from the bottom up
• Russom: Why “blue state” teachers need their own revolt

  For the first time, United Teachers Los Angeles is tying our local contract demands to a statewide demand of 20 by 20: funding levels of $20,000 per pupil in California by the year 2020
• Friedman: What’s Behind the Teachers’ Strikes

  When there is no effective access to meaningful channels for change, workers resort naturally to the only power no one can steal from them—the power to withhold their labor
• Brophy: Puerto Rico: The Teacher Uprising the Media Is Ignoring

  We are focusing on the shutdown targets to boycott standardized tests. No testing, no scores, no information, no charter
• Corriher: Trump hastening resegregation of Southern schools

  America's schools are more racially segregated than they've been in decades
• Holmes: Why this N.C. teacher is taking to the streets

  We need to treat the whole student
• Torres Goitia: What Students Are Capable Of

  Sexual Harassment and the Collateral Beauty of Resistance
• Starzman: Academic alienation

  Freeing cognitive labor from the grip of capitalism
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  Piascik: Teachers’ Strikes Past and Present

  People’s class allegiances emerge as struggle intensifies, and the fact that some of the striking teachers voted for Trump is almost irrelevant as they engage in actions like the recent walk-outs
• Cohen: A Major Step Toward Organizing Charter Schools

  The fight over charter schools is often just as much a battle over unions
• Schools: Defending Immigrant Students

  In the Streets and in Our Classrooms