Students and educators say the needs of traumatized students must be addressed before real learning can take place.
Education
The proposal would make college and university tuition-free for all students from families earning under $125,000/year.
Some union organizers say that recent budget cuts were premature, premeditated, and in some cases, draconian.
The right’s anti-trans push and the move to return creationism to the classroom emphasizes an anti-science connection.
Standardized testing under pandemic conditions will only magnify the inequities the tests were designed to perpetuate.
COVID-19 is being used as a pretext to eviscerate departments at both public and private colleges throughout the U.S.
Rhetoric about children “falling behind” shows a desire to maintain a broken status quo, not a desire for true equity.
Standardized tests don’t measure learning, so it’s wrong to believe they will measure COVID’s impact on learning.
The pressure to reopen school buildings before all educators are vaccinated became bipartisan after Biden took office.
President Biden has clear legal authority to cancel student debt.