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• Walker: Students in GA Protested Against Racism. Only the Black Pupils Were Punished

  Black students only make up 33 percent of the student population — but the report found they accounted for 52 percent of all disciplinary actions taken by school administrators in the county
• Bernard: Bates College Admin Censors Student Reporters Covering Staff Unionization

  A college administrator pressured the campus paper to take down a pro-union article and revise it to feature management-friendly talking points
• Conley: Omar Demands Release of Memo Detailing Biden’s Authority to Cancel Student Debt

  "With a single signature," the lawmaker and her colleagues wrote, "you can improve the economy, create new jobs, transform the lives of 45 million Americans, narrow the racial wealth gap, and maintain the trust of voters."
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  Cole: Haugen: Facebook has become the Terminator

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  Jensen: Instituting Liberty: Contested, Changing, Conflicted Definitions

  Reasonable people can disagree, and a university should be a place where those disagreements are celebrated. That would be a good starting point for a Liberty Institute
• McInnis: Pedagogy of the Apocalypse

  In a year filled with trauma, a university professor learns how to support her students
• Lahm: How the increasingly popular community schools model is boosting rural America

  "Rural districts are an often-overlooked part of the complex American education system"
• Secchi: Teaching Without Mask and Vaccine Mandates

  At the University of Iowa, faculty are forbidden from asking students to wear masks in classrooms or offices
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  Giroux: Attacks on Critical Race Theory Seek to Insert Fascist Politics Into Education

  This attack on critical race theory is part of a broader attack on the wider issues of critical pedagogy, critical thinking, dissent and civic consciousness
• Baldwin: The Rise of the UniverCity

  Universities increasingly wield the kind of power and influence that were hallmarks of ruthless employers in isolated company towns. Historian Davarian Baldwin calls this ominous trend the “rise of the UniverCity.”
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  Podur: Reading Ivan Illich’s Deschooling Society in the Neoliberal University

  Finding a path from here to an education system that meets social needs while respecting the freedom of its members remains to be done. Illich challenges us to make sure our ideas pass the test of freedom
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  Gordon: Debt and Disillusionment

  How College Is Like the Airplane Game
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  Kolhatkar: How a BLMLeader Started a ‘Freedom School’ Summer Program

  Jasmine Richards views the education and empowerment of young Black and Brown children in her community to be just as important as fighting racist police brutality
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  Prashad: Show the Children the Green Fields and Let Sunshine into Their Minds

  Half the global population has no internet, and many of those who are able to access the internet cannot afford the technologies and tools required to participate in distance learning
• Sanchez: Outlawing the Truth

  Three things that could become illegal in my Philadelphia classroom if House Bill 1532 becomes law: analyzing the original text of the U.S. Constitution, reading MLK Jr.’s writing, and discussing inequitable school funding
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  Wilkins: Koch Network Infiltration of Public Schools

  "In their assault on public education, the network has taken actions to increasingly privatize and corporatize K-12 institutions."
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  Klikauer: Academentia: the Organization Insanity of the Modern University

  Universities have been converted by today’s managerial apparatchiks from places where one wanted to go into places which have to be endured in order to get a job
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  Early: Power Despite Precarity

  How Contingent Faculty Organizing Can Succeed in Higher Education
• Kendi: There Is No Debate Over Critical Race Theory

  Pundits and politicians have created their own definition for the term, and then set about attacking it
• Walker: Facing Threats Over Critical Race Theory, Educators Across US Are Quitting

  “Culture warriors are labeling any discussion of race, racism and discrimination as CRT to try to make it toxic”