Teachers Striking for the ‘Common Good’
By Courtney E. Martin Teachers went on strike on May 4, 2023, just three weeks before the last day of the academic calendar. The strike lasted seven school days. In negotiations, teachers not only fought…
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Next Steps in the Fight for Debt Relief
By Rebekah Barber The student loan pause offered a safety raft to millions of Americans who are drowning in debt. The Supreme Court’s recent 6-3 decision to block student debt relief will devastate these borrowers,…
NCGA Bullies Trans Youth and Fails to Address Problems Students Face
Commentary by Carl Hintz The “cultural wars” have reared their ugly heads in North Carolina. As an enthusiast of cultural anthropology, this saddens me. Culture is a shared system of meaning, not something to have…
Hostile Takeover
The Dystopian Future of U.S. Public Education Is On Display in Houston By Jackie Anderson, Ruth Kravetz and Jay Malone On June 1, the state of Texas removed Elizabeth Santos, an elected school board trustee,…
Black College Students Derailed From Teaching
By Jill Barshay A growing problem in American classrooms is that teachers don’t resemble the students they teach. Eighty percent of the nation’s 3.8 million public school teachers are white, but over half of their…
Community Schools
Holistic approach transforming parent involvement for the better By Jeff Bryant Both common sense and research seem to conclude that parent involvement matters a lot for student success and even for improving schools in general….
You are in the same fight we are.
We’re All Mice Trying to Chew Through a Trillion Dollar Tree By Hamilton Nolan Human beings are not good at comprehending large numbers. When their scale exceeds anything we have ever experienced, it becomes difficult…
How prisoner-led organizing saved my life
By Darrell Jackson To survive in prison, inmates usually accept a “convict code” that demands toughness and makes us wary of others. To thrive in prison, I learned to embrace organizing for social change and…
The Movie and the Moment
An Oppenheimer Review Through the Lens of an Anti-War Activist By Marcy Winograd The ground-breaking movie Oppenheimer, despite its unsympathetic protagonist, packs a powerful anti-nuclear punch that makes it hard, if not impossible, to sleep…
The Real Reason Your Groceries Are Getting So Expensive
By Stacy Mitchell Food Fresh is the only grocery store in a rural stretch of southeastern Georgia. It has many five-star Google reviews praising its freshly butchered meats, tomato bar and friendly service. Yet it faces…