Latest Education

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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”
• Hollar: How Not to Cover Critical Race Theory

  “When we start dictating what can be taught, what can be said, and what is unsayable, we are well, well down the road towards an authoritarian regime.”
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  Ludwig: Teachers’ Unions Are Pushing Back Against Attacks on Anti-Racist Education

  Educators targeted by right-wing legal groups and news outlets say the stories fed through the media about anti-racist education in public schools are often distorted if not completely inaccurate
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  Speri: Billionaire-Funded Website With Ties to Far Right “Canceling” Professors

  Campus Reform and its publisher, the Leadership Institute, are siccing armies of trolls on professors across the country
• Pulkkinen: America’s schools are crumbling

  Fixing them could save lives (and the planet)
• Holden: Is America Headed for a Scopes Moment over Critical Race Theory?

  The goal was not to win a debate over socialism; it was to stop social change they objected to
• Koslowski: States Are Attacking the Teaching of Racism

  To fight back, we’ll need to organize in our unions to take action — from the bottom up
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  Giroux: Fighting back against the age of manufactured ignorance

  Republican attacks on "critical race theory" are part of a larger right-wing strategy. Resistance is crucial
• Sacks: What Our Schools Actually Distort

  As a whole, the texts and materials give students a very misleading picture of the US and its interactions with the world
• Koehler: Politically Correct Racism

  So a major component of the latest manifestation of racism is that white people are its victims
• Henderson: GOP ‘indoctrination’ law a ‘disgraceful’ attack on free speech

  "First Amendment experts say the Florida law is unconstitutional and will do the opposite of what it purports to"
• Bachman: New bill requires Florida students, professors to register political views

  Universities may lose funding if staff and students' beliefs do not satisfy Florida's GOP-run legislature
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  Cohen: School Privatization Lobby Places Fake News on Local Stations

  With Ed Newsfeed, the Betsy DeVos-funded American Federation for Children distributes syndicated content to TV stations. They run it as news
• Bendery: Texas Governor Signs Law to Stop Teachers from Talking about Racism

  “The idea is to whitewash American history of any legacy of racism,” said state Democratic Rep. James Talarico.
• Flowers: ‘We moved a mountain’: Colorado pre-K teachers win a union

  Most of all, the Jefferson County preschool teachers are looking forward to having a collective voice
• Chidi: Georgia Board of Education Votes to Censor American History

  The state board drafted a resolution restricting classroom discussion of racism, then blocked comments from the YouTube livestream
• Bryant: What’s Up With the Sudden Attacks on Schools That Teach Critical Race Theory?

  What appears to be a dispute about academics is really a political tactic in the ongoing campaign to privatize public schools