Latest Education

• Anderson: The Federal Government Owns 92% of Student Debt. Will Biden Wipe It Out?

  Lifting these financial burdens would help individual debt holders meet daily needs, reduce the racial wealth gap, and give a boost to the national economy
• James: Teachers Are on a Tightrope With No Safety Net

  The hybrid model teachers are being thrust into during the pandemic isn’t sustainable without more resources and support
• Shawn Smith: Students Push to Remove Police. University President Doubles Down Instead

  We know policing has negative health implications on young people, especially for Black people who are disproportionately affected
• Montague: Trump’s Attacks on Science Have Scarred Our Public Institutions

  Trump is continuing a long GOP tradition of warring against science
• Featherstone: Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed at Fifty

  The Brazilian educator Paulo Freire’s book, first published in English 50 years ago, urges viewing students as interlocutors or partners in the learning process
• Gaudiano: New Teachers Union Leader Fighting Trump, School Reopening Battles

  As president, Becky Pringle said her mission is to “lead a movement to reclaim public education as a common good.” She wants to transform the system into one that is racially and socially just and equitable.
• Ayala: Students And COVID-19: We Are Struggling, Here’s The Help We Need

  A recent survey on workers and learners in Los Angeles County by the UCLA Labor Center found that “52% have been laid off, terminated, or furloughed from their jobs due to the pandemic.” It is very hard to study with many insecurities in your life
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  Bader: Colleges Pander to Trump in Effort to Stifle Campus Organizing

  Organizers emphasize that they are taking COVID-19 protocols extremely seriously, but say that administrations are exploiting the virus’s threat to crack down on dissent
• Berger: Teachers unions around the world clash with governments over school reopening plans

  "We are now at a crisis moment where all over the world people are realising the centrality of public education"
• Miller: Educators set donation records, back Biden over Trump nearly 6-1

  During his three years in office, Trump and Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos have attempted to expand school choice and redirect money from public schools to private and charter schools
• Smith: Telling the Truth About Slavery Is Not ‘Indoctrination’

  Our country is made better, not worse, by young people reckoning with the full legacy of the institution.
• Sernatinger: The most important week of our profession

  Five members of the Movement of Rank and File Educations (MORE) caucus spoke to Tempest on September 15th about the struggle over safe teaching and learning conditions in the New York City school system.
• Mays: California Schools Launch Anti-Racism Plan, Flouting Trump’s Threats

  The California Department of Education is developing the nation’s first statewide ethnic studies curriculum model
• Rodov: Online Charter Schools Are Not a Solution to Education in a Pandemic

  Coronavirus and racism combined with online charters would create a plague of injustice that will never be wiped out
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  Bradbury: School and Campus Workers Say: Not Until It’s Safe

  For those who have defeated unsafe reopenings, the next battle may be against mass layoffs, as in Rochester, New York, and at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.
• Weiner: What Does a “Safe Return” to School Look Like? Ask Teacher Unions.

  Powerful elites are willing to sacrifice the lives and futures of millions to feed their own profits. Teachers are fighting back
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  Thomas Whitfield: All the Options for Schooling Are Bad—But We Have to Choose Safety

  On parents’ impossible decision
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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