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Report Details How Bans on Teaching About Racism Are Chilling Free Speech
The report from PEN America is based on an investigation of 54 separate bills from 24 state legislatures across the U.S.
Koch Funding for Campuses Comes With Dangerous Strings Attached
The funding is a blatant effort to steer curricula and hiring to funnel students into careers with conservative groups.
Students Are Pushing US Colleges to Sever Ties With Military-Industrial ComplexÂ
Students and young people are witnesses to the ways in which U.S. education is deeply complicit with war and militarism.
Biden Administration Caught in Lie Over Student Debt Forgiveness Memo
The administration has hidden the memo for months, despite calls from activists and lawmakers for it to be released.
Efforts to Ban Toni Morrison’s “Beloved” Are at Center of Virginia Governor Race
GOP candidate Glenn Youngkin released a political ad featuring a white mother who advocated banning the book in schools.
Jim Crow Politics Have Descended on Education
For the GOP, higher education is now a battleground for conducting a race war waged in the spirit of the Confederacy.
Liberty University Discourages and Dismisses Students’ Reports of Sexual Assault
The school ignored reports of rape and threatened to punish accusers for breaking its moral code, say former students.
Limited Tracking of Pandemic School Aid Leaves Effectiveness of Funding Unclear
The Education Department is unsure about how effective the $190 billion for schools has been in helping students.
Students in GA Protested Against Racism. Only the Black Pupils Were Punished.
Students planned a protest in response to white students flying a Confederate flag and using racial slurs.
Texas School Administrator to Teachers: Teach “Opposing” Sides of the Holocaust
The comments came just a few days after the district reprimanded a teacher for having an anti-racist book.