Latest Education

• Mayo: Higher Education in the Time of COVID-19

  The history of education is full of episodes whereby necessity, through crises in the form of occupation, led to ingenuity
• Baracsi: Resistance and devotedness: learning democracy under pressure

  What better way could there be of learning democratic resistance through first-hand experiences than fighting for local initiatives and adopting a solidarity-based approach?
• Hoxie: Student debt relief is good politics — and good policy

  Source: Insidesources.com Ask any young person, or anyone who knows...
• Jacobs: How Bloomberg Trashed Public Education in New York

  I’m an art teacher. Mike’s policies gutted my school. During those years, I was lucky to have enough copy paper for my students to draw on. Bloomberg’s harmful education policies are today being papered over as his money cascades through the media
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  Gautney: Mike Bloomberg’s Education ‘Reforms’ Would be a Disaster for Public Schools

  Like Trump, Bloomberg is a fervent backer of privatizing and dismantling public schools across the country
• Bryant: How Corporations Are Forcing Their Way Into America’s Public Schools

  In the expanding effort to privatize the nation’s public education system, an ominous, less-understood strain of the movement is the corporate influence in Career and Technical Education (CTE) that is shaping the K-12 curriculum in local communities
• Veiga: NYC students plan citywide school boycott

  Turning up the pressure for integration
• Paoluzzi: Stop celebrating neoliberal academia: boycott your graduation

  Graduation ceremonies at UK universities are a clear representation of their financialized mentality, valuing profit over quality education
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  Espinosa: Fighting with pens in Rojava’s “war of education”

  Rojava’s revolutionary education system is built around a homegrown curriculum promoting gender equality, ecology and social and cultural inclusivity.
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  Ochigame: The Invention of “Ethical AI”

  How Big Tech Manipulates Academia to Avoid Regulation
• Hollar: Media Turn Support for Public Schools Into Opposition to Children of Color

  It’s a classic charter (and voucher) argument that manages to paint the policy as having only the best interests of the poor at heart, even as it promotes inequality by offering access to a few lifeboats rather than repairing the ship
• Schuhrke: Why 15,000 Indiana Teachers Just Walked Off the Job

  After making waves in West Virginia, Oklahoma, Arizona, Kentucky, North Carolina and beyond, the Red for Ed movement has now spread to Indiana
• Targ: The Crisis of Public Education in Indiana

  “Red for Ed” is the slogan that animated 15,000 teachers, students, and trade unionists to attend a huge rally at the Statehouse in Indianapolis, November 19
• Armstrong: Arkansas Teachers Went On Strike

  Arkansas teachers and students face a well-funded school privatization effort backed by major corporate entities with influence that stretches from the Governor’s office to the state Board of Education to the University of Arkansas
• Marin: Venezuela Teachers’ Strike

  ‘Those of Us Who Continue to Teach Do So Out of Love’
• Barber: The Failure of Higher Education: A Tale of Two Diplomas

  For the majority of students in the United States, black students in particular, education has never meant anything more than a training to stay in one’s place
• Madeloni: Fight for Racial Justice Fuels Little Rock Educator Strike Preparations

  The site of struggle to defend unions and public education has moved quickly from Chicago to Little Rock
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  Anderson: Prelude to a Socioeconomic Class Analysis of/in Academia (as a Precursor to Classlessness)

  Working class academics, including (and perhaps especially) at the undergraduate level, have a vastly different educational experience than aspiring scholars coming from a higher socioeconomic status
• Davis: Speaking up in Ann Arbor

  Making a case for the urgency of defending academic freedom
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  Barber: School secession movement drives re-segregation

  Re-segregation is on the rise in American schools