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…
Education
If Parents Don’t Fight to Protect Children from
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…
Calls for Death. Anti-Muslim. Dissing Public Schools.
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…
New Strategies to Suppress Student Activism
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…
When School Lunch Is Free
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,…
Education Is Critical for Children in War Zones
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…
Educate More Girls, Eat Less Meat
Oregon university researchers push novel plan to fight climate change By Gosia Wozniacka A team of scientists led by Oregon State University researchers has devised a new climate change scenario that offers different thinking on…
Educating for Democracy
By Michael Schwalbe The latest case of right-wing Republican meddling in the curriculum of North Carolina’s public universities comes in the form of a proposed requirement, engineered by the political appointees who constitute the UNC…
Massachusetts ‘Tax the Rich’ Law Raises $1.5 Billion
For Free School Lunch and More By Julia Conley A new “millionaire’s tax” in Massachusetts was expected to generate $1 billion in revenue last year to help pay for public education, infrastructure, and early childcare…
Seeing Every Child
Nonprofit provides health care regardless of ability to pay By Tiney Ricciardi When Reid DeSpiegelaere, chief development officer at Every Child Pediatrics, talks about his work’s mission, he points to the name of the nonprofit…