Latest Education

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  Olivier: Meet the Students Trying to Organize the First Campus-Wide Undergraduate Union

  Inside the groundbreaking student organizing drive at Kenyon College
• Julissa Muñiz: Universities Should Learn Lessons of 9/11 and Transform in the Face of Pandemic

  What colleges and universities decide to do in the next several months will shape the character and meaning of higher education for decades to come.
• Anonymous: Universities are being forced to lie about being COVID safe

  Universities know they will become infection hot-spots. But shutting before the government tells them to will leave them bankrupt
• Uma Nagarajan-Swenson, & Lindsay Koshgarian: Reimagining School Safety

  A look at the dangers posed to students by law enforcement and how to invest in real safety for our nation’s children
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  Pitt: It’s OK to Mourn When “Back to School” Means Staying at Home

  The experts and their statistical models are forecasting more than 410,000 COVID fatalities by the New Year
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  Dayen: Grad Student Strike at the University of Michigan the First Pandemic Pushback on Campus

  The GEO has a set of demands that correlate with our interlocking sets of national crises. Like many colleges that have returned, Michigan hasn’t put the safety of its students and faculty first, the union alleges
• Gomes: NYC Teachers Were About to Strike… Then Union Leaders Cut a Backroom Deal

  Teachers are understandably furious about this sellout on the part of their own leadership and the bureaucratic methods used to try to convince members to accept the deal
• James Cordero: We Reinvigorated Our Undergrad Union… Just in Time for COVID Fights

  Our fight has just begun, and from the Milwaukee Bucks’ inspiring strike for Black lives to the recent Cornell RA strike over health and safety, we’re seeing how our struggles for racial justice and public health are linked. We have a world to win.
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  Cunningham-Cook: Teachers Expect UFT to Vote on Whether to Authorize a Strike Over School Reopening

  The New York City teachers union wants to ensure good ventilation in schools and access to Covid-19 testing
• Chesler: The “Great” Reopening

  Or Setting America’s Schools Up to Fail
• Novosat: University Greed in the Midst of a Global Pandemic

  This is the way of the modern University administration—they are sneaky, they are greedy, and they care nothing for the health and safety of their students
• Kaplan: RPI’s long-standing ties to U.S. militarism

  Be careful whose dreams you help come true
• Beckett: Calls For Nationwide Sickout As Arizona School District Cancels Reopening

  Arizona public school district forced to abandon plans after more than 100 teachers and staff members called in sick
• Theisen-Homer: The ‘Broken Windows’ Approach to Teaching Is Breaking Our Schools

  And Students of Color Are Harmed the Most
• Henderson: Young People Are Leading the Growing Movement for Police-Free Schools

  They are demanding that city and school district leaders reallocate funding for police into services and resources for students, including counseling, social workers and restorative justice programming
• Fassler: Teachers and Students Mobilize in More Than 35 Cities to Demand Safe Schools

  When many politicians announced plans for the full or hybrid reopening of schools, rank-and-file teachers began organizing themselves spontaneously to prevent the unsafe reopening of schools
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  Cohen: As Schools Reopen, Teachers, Parents, and Students Are Pushing Back

  On the National Day of Resistance, activists say “going back to normal” isn’t good enough
• Epstein: If the Fed Can Bail Out Wall Street, It Can Rescue Public Education

  The coronavirus pandemic has sparked a new crisis in the nation’s public education system as a result of having created huge holes in school budgets, especially in high-poverty areas
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  Pitt: If We Reopen Schools, We Admit That Community Safety Is Not Our Priority

  “[C]lassrooms without adequate health and safety measures” covers most of the populated portions of the country right now
• Blanc: A Teacher Strike Wave?

  Teachers across the country are insisting that schools should only be reopened when it can be done safely — and they might just go on strike to fight back against the billionaires