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Education & Youth
Los Angeles Teachers Escalate Action to Demand Fair Treatment
Fifteen thousand members of United Teachers filled downtown LA on February 26 to demand a fair contract for themselves and their students.
Attitudes and Outcomes of Sex Ed: The US vs. the Netherlands
In the US, sex is considered a mistake teens will make, and an act parents must fear.
The Fight of Their Lives: Can Adjuncts Finally Win a Living Wage?
The next big fight for decent labor protections is heating up in academia.
Howard Zinn, “Finishing School for Pickets” and Paula Giddings, “Learning Insubordination“
An excerpt from a 1960 Howard Zinn piece and Paula Giddings looking back on Zinn.
NYU Professor Barred From Researching in UAE, Where NYU Has a Campus
The travel ban sheds light on a deeper controversy encircling Saadiyat Island: labor conditions and teaching and learning conditions are connected.
The Need for Wisdom
The University of Everywhere, however, could just as easily be called the University of Nowhere because it exists only on the internet.
Whither Public Education?
The author presents a critique of neoconservative education policy, arguing it is based on three fallacies.
Teacher’s Image Takes a Hit in America
Something about our fast-paced, super consumerist society seems to have robbed the teaching vocation the respect it deserves, disposing that once concrete and tender human relationship to a matter …
Charter Schools: the Segregation of Latino and African-American Students
The segregation of ELL students from the mainstream classroom creates a separation between English speaking students and bilingual students.
The Green Ninja
Can we raise a generation of green kids? “The Green Ninja” says we can.