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Red-State Teachers Continue to Press Their Demands as Walkouts, Protests Capture Public Support
Teachers in right-to-work states want fully funded schools.
Corporal Punishment Lives On: Students Nationwide Are Being Paddled, Restrained
Corporal punishment reinforces the cycle of violence.
Betsy DeVos Wants to Roll Back Critical Guidance on School Discipline
Critics argue this will feed the school-to-prison pipeline.
Educated Hope in Dark Times: The Challenge of the Educator-Artist as a Public Intellectual
Pedagogies of repression further a modern-day pandemic of loneliness and alienation.
US Schools Disproportionately Punish Black Students, GAO Report Confirms
Black students are even more likely to be punished at charter schools.
Red State Rebellion: Inside the Oklahoma Teacher Walkout
What started in West Virginia is rippling across the country.
Wave of Red State Protests Against Low Salaries and School Funding Comes to Kentucky
Teachers across Kentucky became the latest educators to walk out of their classrooms.
“I Learned to Duck Bullets Before I Learned to Read”: Edna Chavez at March For Our Lives Rally
Speakers eat Saturday's historic student protest included Edna Chavez, a 17-year-old student from Los Angeles.
Naomi Wadler, 11: I Speak for Black Girls Victimized by Guns Whose Stories Don’t Make the Front Page
Last weekend's march, march was organized by survivors of last month's school shooting in Parkland, Florida.
“One Life Is Worth All the Guns in the US”: Students Demand End to Violence at March For Our Lives
In a historic day of action, more than 800 protests were held Saturday urging lawmakers to pass gun control.