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Trump’s DEI Crackdown Hit a Wall in Court. What’s Next?

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A federal judge voided a Trump administration directive that pressured educational institutions to end all programs related to diversity, equity, and inclusion last month. The directive, issued by the Department of Education as a “Dear Colleague” letter to public schools in February 2025, stated that school districts who failed to drop “discriminatory” DEI practices could […]

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We Must Defend Black History — It Fuels Freedom Dreams of Students Under Attack

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Historian Elizabeth Todd-Breland discusses how schools have become a key site of struggle amid rising fascism in the US.

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Teaching Kids to Read: How One School District Gets It Right

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The schools in Steubenville, Ohio, are doing something unusual—in fact, it’s almost unheard of. In a country where nearly 40 percent of fourth graders struggle to read at even a basic level, Steubenville has succeeded in teaching virtually all of its students to read well.  According to data from the Educational Opportunity Project at Stanford […]

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Ibram X. Kendi vs. America’s “Antiracism Backlash”

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Just a few years ago, historian and activist Ibram X. Kendi seemed to be everywhere. At the height of the Black Lives Matter movement, he became one of the leading voices on racism in America—and particularly what he described as antiracism. In 2019, his book How to Be an Antiracist became a bestseller. And later, […]

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Republican Leaders Target Teachers and Schools Amid Student Anti-ICE Protests

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GOP officials in Texas, Arizona, Florida, and Oklahoma want to punish teachers for facilitating student-led protests.

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“Who the Fuck Are These Men?”

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By nightfall, people all over America had seen the footage. It was barely a month into President Donald Trump’s second term, and a team of black-clad private security officers was violently dragging a woman out of a Republican town hall meeting in Idaho. One agent mumbled that things would get “a hundred times better” if […]

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For Gaza’s Students, International Scholarships Offer Both Hope and Heartbreak

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This academic year, for the first time, Italy extended university scholarships to more than 180 students from Gaza.

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Their Courses Were No Longer Relevant, so These Economics Students Went to Work

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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. As the fallout from the 2008 global financial crash reverberated around the world, a group of students at Harvard University walked out of their introductory economics class complaining it was teaching a “specific and limited view” that perpetuated “a problematic and inefficient system of […]

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The Trauma of ICE Raids Is Rippling Through Public Schools Across the US

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ICE raids have left children stranded without caregivers after school bus drop-off. Abductions traumatize whole schools.

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Can He Really Do That? Black History Month in the Age of Trump

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Last year, shortly after his second inauguration, President Donald Trump issued a proclamation on January 31 to mark the start of Black History Month the next day—just as presidents before him had done, beginning with Gerald Ford in the bicentennial year of 1976. He invoked “heroes such as Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Thomas Sowell, Justice […]

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