Latest Education

• Stender: Chicago Teachers Union’s commitment to democracy pays off

  Negotiations with the capitalist class are always incomplete. They are always a compromise. There can be no full victory save through socialist revolution
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  Konya: Courage, rage and joy at Turkey’s student protests

  The undemocratic appointment of a party loyalist as rector at a prominent university in Turkey is fiercely resisted by its student body and faculty
• Staff: Student activists in Weymouth, Mass. vs the cult of ‘blue lives matter’

  It’s refusal to take any concrete political stance “points out a flaw in the way schools are managed. One person or a few people at the top make decisions for all students [who] at the end of the day, hold no power.”
• Madeloni: Despite Slow Vaccine Rollout, Teachers Are Being Pushed Back Inside

  “We need to stop training members to look up, and instead learn to look over their shoulder, toward each other.”
• Taylor: “Not Doing This Is a Choice”

  Biden Drags His Feet on Canceling Student Debt Despite Campaign Pledge
• O'Keefe: Biden to heavily indebted students: Tough luck

  By not forgiving student loans, Biden is only proving that he believes education is a luxury
• Lavelle: The New “University Police” Shows Greece’s Authoritarian Turn

  On Thursday, parliament voted to create a special police force to patrol universities, as the right-wing government mounts a troubling crackdown on supposedly “dangerous” student groups
• Cassidy: Karen Lewis and the class-conscious union

  During her tenure as CTU president, Lewis and other CORE leaders dedicated years to reshaping the organizational structure of the CTU to prioritize organizing, rank-and-file engagement, and relationships with parents and community school councils
• Cozzarelli: Joe Biden is Leading The Battle to Reopen Schools, But Teachers Are Fighting Back

  There is bipartisan unity around reopening schools thanks to the alliance between Joe Biden, local officials, and national union leadership. It’s time for teachers to fight
• Noguera: Education Will Be Critical in the Fight for Democracy and Anti-Racism

  What is the role of education in creating a critically-minded public that is unafraid to resist lies and deceptions perpetuated by anti-democratic forces?
• Zhang: Warren, Schumer Introduce Resolution to Cancel $50K in Student Loan Debt

  Polls have shown that forgiving up to $50,000 in student loan debt is relatively popular among the public, though with some caveats that the forgiveness should be targeted
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  Cohen: Parents, Backed by a Right-Wing Law Firm, Ready to Sue Striking Teachers

  The conservative movement is capitalizing on school closures to weaken public education
• Bryant: We Need a Democratic Approach to Reimagining Schools

  Asking People, Not Billionaires and Ideologues, What They Want
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  Olivier: Columbia Students Wage the Largest Tuition Strike in Nearly 50 Years

  Students are demanding the university lower the cost of attendance and boost financial aid
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  Cole: Marjorie Taylor Greene, who denied Parkland School Shootings, on House Education Committee

  I am deeply offended, as an teacher for nearly 37 years, that the GOP would so demean my field as to saddle us with this violent conspiracy theorist who disrespects every core value of American education
• Union: CTU rank-and-file votes to save lives, continue to teach safely and remotely

  Educators call on Mayor Lightfoot and CPS to adopt CDC health metric, agree to rigorous testing and allow educators to return as they’re vaccinated, among other concerns
• Taylor: You Are Not a Loan

  Activists and academics discuss the crisis of higher education and the growing movement to cancel student debt and make college free for all
• Stender: Chicago public school reopening battle rages on

  Why is Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot so intent on reopening schools as soon as possible when a vaccine is around the corner and the CDC estimates that 100,000 more people will die by February 13?
• Antonio: Texas schools are peddling lies to “normalize” COVID at the expense of communities

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  Anderson: Thoughts on the Making and on the Prospects of Unmaking Market-Driven Higher Education

  the rising cost of graduate education, often in the form of exorbitant fees, reflects and exacerbates structural violence