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Advocates: Supreme Court Should Nix Legacy Admissions, Not Affirmative Action
“Affirmative Action for the rich is legacy admissions,” said Rep. Jamaal Bowman. “Yet SCOTUS is focusing on race.”
Students in Tehran Protest Gender Segregation in University Dining Hall
Students in Iran are fighting to reclaim everyday life by resisting state-imposed gender segregation on campus.
Polls Show Republican Attacks on Teaching About Racism Are Backfiring
The vast majority of Americans back teaching about LGBTQ rights and the history of racism in the U.S, a new poll finds.
Teachers Nationwide Want to Reduce Class Sizes for More Reasons Than COVID
The push to reduce class sizes is gaining momentum. Can the pandemic be a portal to the end of overcrowded classrooms?
Let’s Build Leftist Academic Solidarities to Rebuff Far Right Attacks
To defend space for justice-based scholarship, we must challenge the individualizing logic of the corporate university.
GOP Would Undermine 40 Million Student Debtors to Gain Midterm Leverage
The legal challenge is part of a broader GOP strategy to delay debt forgiveness until after the midterms.
Schools Should Ban Corporal Punishment — and Teach Restorative Justice Instead
By instituting corporal punishment, school districts are exposing children to violence that causes long-term damage.
205 Republicans Vote Against Bill to Expand School Mental Health Services
Republicans have spent months scapegoating mental health issues as a catch-all for problems like mass shootings.
Disinvestment Poses as Great a Threat to Libraries as Book Bans
It's time we reversed the decades of structural attacks that render libraries unable to serve communities effectively.
Two Powerful Unions Have Come Together to Fight the Right’s Attack on Higher Ed
The two unions representing teachers and university professors are fighting for academic freedom and shared governance.