Subjects Archives: Education

On 17 April, Minouche Shafik, the president of Columbia University, appeared before the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, the latest episode in efforts by members of Congress to shut down criticism of Israel on campuses by falsely accusing students, professors and administrators of anti-Semitism.

The READER Act would have required vendors to rate books on “explicitness” before selling to schools—and blacklisted those that didn’t comply.

Preparing students for their futures requires nothing short of transformative systemic change in all aspects of society.

Two students from Venezuela’s ELAM medical school talk about becoming physicians in the service of the people.

“The institutional target of the attack by the Republican members of the Judiciary Committee–the Center for Security, Race and Rights–is an academic institution engaged in research, public education and advocacy “to address the underlying structural and systemic causes of Islamophobia and xenophobia against people of Arab, African, and South Asian descent.”” – Aslı Ü. Bâli / Laurie Brand

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.