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Rev Billy Exorcises Robobee from Harvard University
The Robobee lab in Harvard's School of Engineering and Applied Science is exorcised by New York's Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir, who are dressed up as queen …
When This Teacher’s Ethnic Studies Classes Were Banned, His Students Took the District to Court—and Won
The documentary “Precious Knowledge” tells the story of the high school seniors who became activists to save Tucson's ethnic studies classes.
Jim Crow in the Classroom: New Report Finds Segregation Lives on in US Schools
As the US Supreme Court upholds a ban on affirmative action in Michigan and the country marks 60 years since Brown v. Board of Education, Democracy Now! interviews ProPublica's …
The Resegregation of American Schools
ProPublica reporter Nikole Hannah-Jones discusses her year-long investigation into how one of desegregation's success stories in Tuscaloosa, Alabama became one of the most segregated school systems in the country, …
On Children and Childhood
A teacher examines the way children view the world, and how adult actions impact them.
“An Act of Conscience”: Teachers at New York’s Earth School Boycott Common Core Tests!
Teachers at a New York school boycott Common CORE standardized tests.
Five Reasons the Average American Has Little Chance of Becoming President
Beginning in primary school, American students learn about the inclusive nature of democracy, which promises that regardless of sex, creed, or religion, any United States citizen can become President. …
Austerity Is Crap
Since the peak of the Great Society, on the first official Earth Day, captains of industry have engaged in a conspiracy to destroy the gains made for working people …
College Athletes’ Academic Cheating A Harbinger of A Failed System
Academic standards for college athletes should be raised, and sports scholarship programs should be ended.
Hundreds of Students and Faculty Occupy College Campus To Fight Cuts to Public Higher Ed
University of Southern Maine student Meagan LaSala and professor Rachel Bouvier explain how cuts disproportionately target faculty and will trigger a decline in quality public education.