Subjects Archives: Education

University and college students are returning to campus amidst a fall offensive launched against free speech. The ruling class is determined to put students “in their place” after they have bravely opposed the Gaza genocide, despite savage repression, punishments by administrators, and the revoking of job offers to oppose U.S. support for the genocide in […]

Diane Ravitch, author of “Slaying Goliath: The Passionate Resistance to Privatization and the Fight to Save America’s Public Schools”, has dug deep to uncover who the leaders of the nationwide public school privatization movement are and assembled a list that includes: Jeff Bezos, the Koch Brothers, the Walton Family, Bill Gates, Betsy DeVos, Michael Bloomberg, Laurene Powell Jobs, Eli Broad, Reed Hastings, and the Chamber of Commerce.

Many of you know that the Yiddish word chutzpah means extreme self-confidence or audacity.

Recent student-led campus encampments in solidarity with Palestine prompted considerable media conversation.

News items often seem to slip through the cracks at this point in the summer, and the media’s current focus on the Democratic Ticket has understandably dominated domestic headlines.

Laws like this have a chilling effect on teachers’ free speech. It remains to be seen whether New Hampshire’s win in federal court will become a bellwether for democracy throughout the country.

“Little Kites” program introduced in public schools in 2018 has prepared over 1.2 million students for the future with a sense of community and sharing.

Specious claims of antisemitism and incivility merely distract from the genocide before our eyes.

The mandate to place Bibles in classrooms reflects a larger effort to undermine the rule of law.

Corey DeAngelis is on a mission to demonize public schools—and promote voucher programs that benefit his wealthy backers.

No institution in the liberal West is safe from pro-Israel repression, especially universities whose knowledge production has dismantled the official consensus

We call on our supporters to help us resist the Israeli campaign of scholasticide and rebuild our universities

It’s the biggest organizing wave the U.S. labor movement has seen in decades.

CounterSpin interview with Ellen Schrecker on the attack on academic freedom

Germany’s students, labelled ‘terrorist sympathisers’ for protesting against Israel’s war on Gaza, say their right to free speech is under attack.

America’s universities are on fire.

Behind the efforts of the powerful to unleash chaos against students protesting for Palestine.

More than 2,700 protesters have been arrested on 64 college campuses since the initial arrests at Columbia University in New York on April 18. Encampments have appeared at 184 campuses worldwide.

Deakin University and the Australian National University (ANU) have indicated they intend to dismantle the student camps. Students across the country are protesting in support of Palestinian people and against their institutions’ ties with Israel.

 The students in short are moved by a pure sense of humanity.