Subjects Archives: Education

Literacy campaigns targeting African (Black) youth in Africa and across the diaspora have played a crucial role in fostering educational empowerment.

Universities must be places where criticisms of official discourses, dominant worldviews can be voiced without fear of reprisal.

In December 2023, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) released a stunning report showing that, since 2018, literacy in reading and mathematics has declined amongst the world’s students.

The collections of ideas we hold are historically conditioned by the mode of life we exist in.

Parts 3 and 4 of an interview with Michael D. Yates by Farooque Chowdhury.

While often perceived as institutions of knowledge and progress, universities actively contribute to the myth that policing and prisons keep us safe.

The People’s Science Movement in India has few parallels in the world in concept, scale, and scope.

Parts 1 and 2 of an interview with Michael D. Yates by Farooque Chowdhury. The emancipation of labor is one of the foremost questions in all exploitative societies and societies in transition.

Providing a useful understanding of our past has never been more difficult. Schools at all levels have been attacked for teaching (or discussing) almost anything that disturbs the status quo or makes students think.

A documentary filmmaker and teacher tells the story of Venezuela’s groundbreaking community media movement.

Currently, about 3.7 million students are enrolled in roughly 7,800 privately-operated charter schools across the country. The U.S. public education system, on the other hand, has been around for more than 150 years and educates about 45 million students in nearly 100,000 schools.

Wadie Said on the new Gaza McCarthyism.

A pre-requisite for freedom in the third world therefore is to shake off this colonisation of the mind, and to seek truth beyond the distortions of imperialism.

Open letter from students and non-tenured academics

This comes after the school fired his mother Dr. Maha Almasri, a Palestinian-American, for her posts in support of Palestine.

University presidents are under fire from politicians and the media over what is being framed as their waffling over allowing antisemitic speech on their campuses.

Columbia University announced it is suspending the campus chapters of Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace for the remainder of the fall term.

Fall 2023 is a strange time to be alive or to die.

“Public schools belong to us, and we know we deserve better,” said a Sunrise Movement organizer and the youngest school board member in Idaho.

Fascistic outfits which are themselves devoid of any serious thought, also lack respect for serious thought. It is little wonder then that the BJP government is hell-bent on systematically destroying the few spaces that exist in the country for serious thought. Its assault on universities will do incalculable damage to the country.