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College Textbooks Cover the Climate Crisis Less Than They Did Before 2010
Coverage of climate solutions dropped to 3 percent of the total content on climate change from 15 percent in the 90s.
The Right Has Expanded Its Dark Money Strategy for Dominating School Boards
The far right built an elaborate new infrastructure for attacking public education in the run-up to the midterms.
Educator Jeffrey Duncan-Andrade: Teachers Must Fight Inequality, Not Create It
Schools typically see children as broken and try to fix them, but it’s our schools and society that is broken.
Manchin Helped to Impoverish 4 Million Children When He Killed Child Tax Credit
Working people don't stand a chance in a nation that despises the poor and caters to those with power.
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?
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.
Los Angeles Teachers Are Burned Out and Priced Out of Living in Their City
The local teachers union lists unaffordable housing, large class sizes and over-testing as contributing stressors.
State “Solutions” Don’t Address Root Causes of Teaching Crisis
Across the country, real wages for public school teachers have essentially flatlined since 1996.
Focusing on “Learning Loss” Obscures How Much We’ve Truly Lost in the Pandemic
The pandemic’s deaths have been un-dealt with most profoundly by prioritizing saving the economy rather than lives.
Ron DeSantis Exploited Parkland Grief to Take Over a School Board, Critics Say
DeSantis's unelected Republican appointees now command the majority of Broward County's nine-member school board.