Education Watch
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Latest Education
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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
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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.”
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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.”
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Taylor: “Not Doing This Is a Choice”
Biden Drags His Feet on Canceling Student Debt Despite Campaign Pledge
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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?
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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
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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
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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
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Activists and academics discuss the crisis of higher education and the growing movement to cancel student debt and make college free for all
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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?
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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
ZMag Education
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Theisen-Homer: The “Broken Windows” Approach to Teaching
We cannot continue to promote the same unjust and oppressive educational structures that have endured for centuries
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Laven: Face the facts: Donald Trump does not care about you or your kids
My duty to my students is to protect the learning environment and ending such derelict non-leadership is part of that duty that I share with teachers everywhere
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Coles: Education, Jobs and Capitalism
American capitalism has a hate-love relationship with the nation’s schools
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Sidhu: School Vouchers: The Silver Bullet of America’s Education
In instances where school vouchers have been partially adopted, the pedagogical results have been insignificant, if not shoddy
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Chomsky: Education and Economics
Take the very nature of corporations. They’re based on what’s called “limit liability,” meaning if you’re a partner in a corporation and the corporation carries out mass murder, the participants aren’t guilty of it. So corporate mass slaughter is a huge phenomenon
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Now the Trump administration wants to further expand the use of vouchers by creating a $20 billion school choice program. According to The Century Foundation, a think tank dedicated to reducing inequality, Trump’s plan would increase segregation in public schools
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U.S historians have no doubt been having a field day with Trump’s reported clueless comments on U.S. history earlier this year. The president’s moronic take on the nation’s past was front-page news in liberals’ and academics’ favorite newspaper, the New York Times
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It is fair to say that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 brought the United States into the 20th Century. That comprehensive law made it illegal to engage in racial, gender, and national origin discrimination in public accommodations--like hotels and restaurants--and employment. Yet, the law says very little about what exactly constitutes discrimination
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Friesen: Why The Guns-on-Campus Debate Matters
As of August 1, 2016, a new law allows concealed handguns in college and university buildings. We’re about to find out what difference guns in the classroom make in the relationships of students, faculty and staff—and in the character of higher education.
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Dolan: It’s Time to Get Cops Out of Schools
There’s only one way to make sure no more young girls are body-slammed by uniformed officers
Blogs on Education
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Simpson: The Chicago Neighborhood Schools Fair: Colorful balloons and courageous resistance
“I’m proud that this Neighborhood Schools Fair came from neighborhood...
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Wittner: When Education is a Business
To what extent is education corrupted when it becomes intertwined...
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Simpson: Why is Corporate America fanning the flames of violence in Chicago
“At times like this when CPS is making an attempt...
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Simpson: Chicago’s deadly border crossings: lives in the balance
There are no barbed wire adorned border walls. You won’t...
Video Education
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Wolff: On Economic & Business Schools
Interview about the state of economic and business education in universities today
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Kiriakou: Harvard Picks Torture
The goal is to ruin you permanently, to make an example of you so that other people don't take your cue and blow the whistle on waste, fraud, abuse, and illegality
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Chomsky: Postmodernism an Instrument of Power
Interview about postmodernism, how it is an instrument of power and why academics embrace it
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Goodman: Voices from Puerto Rico’s Students Leading an Anti-Austerity Movement
Puerto Rican college students have been waging a series of demonstrations to protest austerity measures they say endanger the higher education system
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Varoufakis: Academic Freedom and Policymaking
On the relation between academic freedom and policy making in the corridors of (European) power
Audio Education
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Finkelstein: Academic Freedom 9/9
In Defense of Academic Freedom, Rockefeller Chapel, University of...
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In Defense of Academic Freedom, Rockefeller Chapel, University of Chicago...
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In Defense of Academic Freedom, Rockefeller Chapel, University of Chicago...
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Mearsheimer: Academic Freedom 5/9
In Defense of Academic Freedom, Rockefeller Chapel, University of Chicago...
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Bilgrami: Academic Freedom 3/9
Dr. Akeel Bilgrami, Johnsonian Professor of Philosophy and Director of...