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School Surveillance Earns Tech Companies Billions. Students Pay the Price.
Tech firms have outfitted classrooms with data-gathering surveillance technologies that undermine education and privacy.
Ohio Is Giving Millions in Taxpayer-Funded Grants to Religious Schools
Critics warn that the state is using public money to expand a separate, religious system of education.
How Does Israel Justify Mass Killings? It Starts in the Schools.
Palestinian history and geography are absent from Israeli schoolbooks, scholar Nurit Peled-Elhanan says.
College Administrators Are Attempting to Quash Gaza Solidarity Actions — Again
NYU updated its student policy to make criticisms of Zionism potentially punishable under its anti-discrimination rules.
Librarians Resist Israel’s Efforts to Destroy Palestinian Cultural Heritage
A global network of librarians and archivists is organizing in solidarity with their Palestinian colleagues.
To Get Students to Understand What Racism Is, I First Had to Teach What It’s Not
Fallacies of racism must be interrogated, or they will (re)produce white supremacy, both ideologically and materially.
CA Educators Are Resisting Anti-Palestine Bills Pushing “Academic Police State”
Activists say the bills will make public education more hostile for people already targeted by anti-Palestinian racism.
Pro-Palestine Student Protesters Navigate Legal Hearings and Potential Penalties
While some local prosecutors have dropped charges entirely, others are pursuing felony charges.
Columbia President Resigns in Wake of Crackdown on Pro-Palestine Campus Protests
Student organizers celebrated the departure but vowed to continue pressuring the institution to divest from Israel.
Students and Educators Are Joining Forces to Fight Book Bans Across the US
Experts say protecting literary freedom relies on organized parents, kids and educators asserting their power.