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….
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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…
No Action on Climate? Blame Big Oil
By Linda McQuaig With outright climate denialism largely behind us, we keep moving on through more sophisticated stages of climate inaction. Currently, even as large swaths of North America became engulfed in wildfire smoke, we…
As Long COVID Turns Three, Americans Play Disability Roulette
Commentary by Wes Ely While society yawns, impatient to move on from the COVID-19 pandemic, Americans still play disability roulette. About 1 in 10 of the 110,000 people who catch COVID this week in the…
“A Serious Environmental Justice Problem”
Duke University didn’t inform public about lead in Durham parks By: Lisa Sorg Soil at three Durham parks—Walltown, East End and East Durham (and presumably a fourth, Lyon Park)—contain levels of lead as much as…
2.5 Million Acres of NC Wetlands Now at Risk
By Lisa Sorg The House overrode Gov. Cooper’s veto of the Farm Act today, stripping 2.5 million acres of wetlands—an area one and half times larger than the state of Delaware—of environmental protection. The vote…
The Modern Form of Colonialism: Climate Change
Commentary by Tapti Sen I am from a disappearing nation. My country, Bangladesh, is one of several at risk of becoming submerged partially or completely by rising sea levels caused by climate change in the…