Education

With school budgets cut to the bone, every dollar counts, and each absent child represents lost state funding.

More electives. Support staff for students who need it. Fair compensation. Recall rights.

The 30,000-strong Chicago Teachers Union strikes for the first time in a quarter century.

Some Chicago students are already at the forefront of the fight against privatizing education.

Two pending National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) cases on graduate student workers provide an opportunity to develop effective strategies to respond to attacks on employee rights under National Labor …

When we heard Todd Akin's remarks about legitimate rape, we knew immediately: that guy needs some accurate, evidence-based words and pictures about gender and sexuality, stat.

The Department of Education paid $1.4 billion to collection agencies to hunt down defaulters, which includes nearly one in six borrowers.

Beverly Bell interviews Leslie Thatcher, content relations editor at Truthout, one of a number of independent, non-commercial news sites that offer an alternative to corporate-controlled media. In a world …

I would never say God sent a scary storm in the form of Hurricane Issac to the RNC because he hates Republicans, even though they do seem to ignore …

Ju00e9ru00e9mie Bu00e9dard-Wien: Quebec student activists work to create a global movement for the right to a free education.