Truthout
Education & Youth
Law Students Fighting Trump Agenda Won’t Find Support at Their Schools
Our legal education system fosters and rewards apathy and produces lawyers who put efficiency over morality.
Standing Against Privatization: Puerto Rico’s Teachers Strike
Members of the Federación de Maestros de Puerto Rico are planning a one-day strike to defend public education.
Black Lives Matter in Our Schools: Developing an Anti-Racist Pedagogy
“Teaching for Black Lives” offers educators insights into intersectional Black identities and overlapping oppressions.
Teaching for Black Lives and Bearing Witness Through Poetry
A public school teacher describes how her class uses poetry to assert identity and justice.
“Anything to Avoid a Scandal”: How Colleges Sideline Sexual Abuse
Laws and policies are only as effective as their enforcers, who all too often align with the powerful on campus.
Graduate Student Workers Organize Against Sexual Harassment on Campus
Graduate student workers have turned to unions to combat endemic conditions of sexual harassment.
“Rad Girls Can”: A Book That Refuses to Sugarcoat History
A counternarrative to white supremacy and misogyny for the young reader.
Why the Democrats’ New “Debt-Free” College Plan Won’t Make College Debt-Free
The bill's tuition-free provision covers only about one-fifth of the total cost of attending community college.
Rep. Jim Jordan Thinks Coaches Can Ignore “Locker Room Talk” About Abuse
It's time for the congressman to admit that he betrayed his athletes and step down, even if the GOP won't fire him.
“They’ve Been Doing This Massive, Anti-Democratic Model of Education Reform”
The top-down model of education reform has failed everywhere.