Why I Left Teaching
Commentary by Lisa Williams I grew up in the culture of teaching. My grandmother was an elementary teacher for 50 years, and when her district forced her into retirement at age 70, she joined the…
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Blaming Low Wages on Bad Schooling
Review of The Fantasy Economy by Neil Kraus By Nora De La Cour “Bachelor’s degree holders generally earn 75 percent more than those with just a high school diploma,” asserts a stats-packed CNBC article with…
Important Election Wins for Public Ed
By Jeff Bryant In a general election that was by-and-large disastrous for the Democratic Party, voters across the political spectrum united to oppose efforts by Republicans to privatize and politicize public schools. The wins mostly…
US Congress Revives Cold War Tactics with New
Anti-Communism School Curriculum By Alan MacLeod Congress has just passed a bill that will see the U.S. spend huge sums of money redesigning much of the public school system around the ideology of anti-communism. The…
Enrollment in Nature Schools Soars
By Damon Orion Author, journalist, and child advocacy expert Richard Louv famously coined the term “nature deficit disorder” to describe the detrimental effects of children’s disconnection from nature. His assertions are backed by data that…
Faculty Resist Campus Protest Clampdown
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…
Keeping Air in Connecticut Classrooms Safe
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…
School Curriculum Supports the Genocide
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….
American Bar Association Cracks Down
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…
The Unsung History of Heartland Socialism
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…