Mucking Through Local Democracy
Commentary by Gwen Frisbie-Fulton One of my favorite photos of my friend Jason Dunkin is a selfie he took where he’s grinning ear to ear. He’s sitting across from his local city commissioners, who are…
Regulating AI Isn’t Enough
Let’s Dismantle the Logic That Put It in Schools By Jesse Hagopian In April, Secretary of Education Linda McMahon stood onstage at a major ed-tech conference in San Diego and declared with conviction that students…
Black-Led, Progressive Homeschool Networks
Rise Amid Book Bans, Attacks on DEI By Ella Fassler Earlier this year in San Antonio, Texas, an eight-year-old delivered a fiery, impassioned speech to the office of Republican Sen. Ted Cruz. Introducing herself as…
Rural Communities Need ‘Community Schools’
By Jeff Bryant “It’s just gotten worse,” Catherine Gilmore said when I asked her how her community was faring since we last spoke. In May 2021, I interviewed Gilmore, the community school coordinator at Gibsonton…
Educators Warn Against Child Labor Rollbacks
By Brenda Álvarez When students at Brunswick High School’s alternative education program begin missing class, Rie Larson knows it’s time to ask questions. “Sometimes when we start to notice a student’s drop in attendance, and…
Young Activists Need Civics
Black youth believe in their ability to make change, but our schools aren’t helping them Commentary by Rashid Duroseau and Andrew Wilkes When Black youth appear in public conversations about civics, it’s usually in the…
VCU Backs Down on Speech Suppression
Commentary by Brian Palmer Sereen Haddad, a Virginia Commonwealth University psychology major, won a major battle against her school in July. But the war she’s fighting is far from over. Haddad’s victory came on July…
Censorship at Harvard
Scholars slam canceling of Harvard journal issue on Palestine By Jessica Corbett As Israel continues its U.S.-backed annihilation of the Gaza Strip and Harvard University weighs a deal with the Trump administration, the Ivy League…
A Scholarship for Student Activists
Founded in 1961 by Horace B. (“Hockey”) Davis as a memorial to his wife, Marian, a teacher and political activist who had died of breast cancer the previous year, the Davis-Putter Scholarship Fund has awarded…
Armed Responses Meet Student Protests in Uganda
By Nakisanze Segawa KAMPALA, UGANDA — In April, dozens of students gathered at the Kyambogo University’s student center. The then-student council president, Akiso Benjamin, called the meeting to address growing frustrations with the university’s administration…