Subjects Archives: Education

Women are conditioned to accept sexism, but they are also able to rebel against it in the right circumstances.

The following records come from the President’s Office at Harvard University involving the terms of the reappointment of Paul Sweezy at the rank of Faculty Instructor in the Harvard economics department.

In the early decades of the twenty-first century, education has become a frontline in the ideological struggle over the future of global capitalism. The coordinated assault on teachers, curriculum, and institutions of public learning is not an isolated culture war but a structural feature of neoliberal governance. In this context, the pedagogical philosophy of Paulo […]

The Classroom Is a Battleground Teaching U.S. history in a public high school today is a subversive act. In the face of mounting attacks on education, educators like me are caught between the curriculum we are allowed to teach and the truth students desperately need to understand. It is no exaggeration to say that the […]

Harvard faces legal and political turmoil after Trump revokes its ability to admit foreign students, but China responds with open offers.

U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) head Kristi Noem sent a letter to Harvard University Thursday informing the school’s administration that she was revoking its ability to enroll international students under the Student and Exchange Visitor Program.

Amidst the uproar of news pouring in about the genocide in Gaza, the news of the martyrdom of Shaima and her family in the Nuseirat area of the Gaza Strip passes as if nothing happened, as if she were just a number added to a list of numbers.

Student protestors across the country are adapting their strategies to Trump’s crackdown on the pro-Palestine movement, but it’s safe to say the activism is not slowing down.

Columbia University has suspended 65 students for joining a pro-Palestine and anti-genocide protest inside the university’s main library on Wednesday, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Let us forget for a moment the fact that the very existence of Israel is an instance of ruthless settler colonialism that has displaced millions of Palestinians and taken over their land.

The leadership of the Democratic Party nationally and especially in Massachusetts–who run the state from the U.S. Congress to its governor to Boston-area mayors and city councils–are championing the Harvard Corporation’s “standing up” to the Trump administration’s headline-grabbing attacks on Harvard.

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Three universities Middle East Eye spoke to said they only found out after checking the student record database.

On Wednesday, President Donald Trump asked the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to revoke Harvard University’s tax exempt status.

On Monday, Harvard University president Alan Garber announced the university would not comply with the Trump administration’s demands to crush political opposition, hand over control of critical departments to government oversight and generally establish a reign of ideological terror and right-wing thought control on the Cambridge, Massachusetts campus.

Jennifer Berkshire has been writing insightfully about the rightwing attacks on public schools and on education for many years. S

Over the last several weeks, demonstrations have erupted across Indonesia.

The latest drama at Columbia—involving interim President Katrina Armstrong’s “resignation”—has broad implications for the academy and American democracy. Once unpacked, this episode throws into sharp relief the issue of whether universities now operate at the pleasure of the White House.

Following an overwhelming membership vote in favor of a resolution opposing scholasticide in Gaza the Council of the American Historical Association, in a blatantly undemocratic act, vetoed the decision. The Council’s cowardly actions are complicit in a pattern on institutional silence (and worse) within the U.S. academy in the face of the U.S. backed genocide by Israel. Daniel Johnson reports on the events and plans to challenge this decision

Among the concessions agreed to by the university are a ban on face masks at protests and the hiring of 36 “special officers” with the power to remove or arrest students.