By Annie Ma Dissent is thriving this fall at American colleges, and not just among student activists. With student protests limited by new restrictions, faculty have taken up the cause. To faculty, new protest rules…
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By Lauren Woods Several years of community service and real-world research of the cross-campus UConn Indoor Air Quality Initiative has led to the awarding of $11.5 million in state support to UConn to bring access…
Here’s how teachers can push back Commentary by Bill Bigelow Scholasticide. It’s a term coined in 2009, but has taken on new power as the devastation of Gazan schools, universities, and libraries becomes almost total….
on Law Student Speech By Fight Back! News Philadelphia PA — On October 16, over the objections of students, Temple University Beasley School of Law adopted anti-protest policies mandated by the American Bar Association. In…
By Miles Kampf-Lassin On a midsummer afternoon in June 1918, Eugene Debs stepped into a gazebo nestled under the trees of Nimisilla Park in Canton, Ohio, to deliver the speech that would land him in…
Covid In Schools, Nobody Else Will By Tess Finch-Lees “It’s not your fault,” I told 16-year-old Cara, whose mother died of a SARS-CoV-2 infection she gave her. To be clear, the doctor confirmed Cara (not…
Morrow’s a wild pick for NC schools chief By Myron B. Pitts Michele Morrow is the strongest statement that North Carolina Republicans have made yet on their real thoughts on public education. It is not…
Universities have been planning all summer—here are the new rules By Carrie Zaremba University administrators across the United States have declared an indefinite state of emergency on college campuses. Schools are rolling out policies in…
By Susan Shain Kurt Marthaller, who oversees school food programs in Butte, Montana, faces many cafeteria-related challenges: children skipping the lunch line because they fear being judged, parents fuming about surprise bills they can’t afford,…
At its most basic level, education provides children with the invaluable opportunity to thrive; in addition to the social and emotional benefits of going to school, even basic reading skills can dramatically increase a person’s…