An intergenerational movement is defending knowledge that challenges the status quo — on campus and in the streets.
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Teachers and Students Are Rising Up to Defend Anti-Racist Education in the US Read Post »
Historian Ellen Schrecker says the current assault is worse than the 1950’s anti-communist repression of higher ed.
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McCarthy Attacked Individual Professors. Trump Is Going After Entire Campuses. Read Post »
States are softening teacher training and licensing requirements amid widespread turmoil in public schools.
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States Are Scrambling to Fill School Vacancies Left by Burned Out Teachers Read Post »
The judge said the administration has made it clear it intends to gut the agency without approval from Congress.
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Federal Judge Blocks Trump Executive Order to Dismantle Education Department Read Post »
A federal judge has ordered the Department of Education to reinstate thousands of employees it fired in advancing President Donald Trump’s mission to eliminate the department. On Thursday, US District Judge Myong J. Joun granted a preliminary injunction on the department’s widespread reduction in force. Initiated in early March, the firings dealt a massive blow […]
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Federal Judge to Trump: Reinstate Fired Education Department Employees Read Post »
Censorship is an act of cowardice and a direct refusal of the mirror I hold up to the US’s racist past and present.
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Pete Hegseth Has Banned 3 of My Books From the US Naval Academy Read Post »
It allows individuals to avoid paying capital gains tax as a reward for funneling public funds into private schools.
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Measure in GOP Bill Incentivizes School Privatization Funders With Tax Breaks Read Post »
Carla Hayden is the first woman and first African American to lead the largest national library in the world.
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Trump Abruptly Fires Librarian of Congress, Sparking Widespread Outrage Read Post »
Democrats have urged the IRS internal watchdog to probe whether Trump targeting Harvard’s tax-exempt status is illegal.
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Trump Seeks to Revoke Harvard’s Tax Status Despite Numerous Concessions Read Post »
Thousands of discrimination investigations are idled, even those nearing resolution when Trump took office again.
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Ed Department’s New Agenda: Roll Back Civil Rights Cases, Target Trans Students Read Post »
In modern America, religious education is offered in private schools or in a homeschooling setting. Public education, by contrast, is secular, because the government is not in the business of sponsoring religious indoctrination. But in two cases the Supreme Court heard over roughly the last week, the justices appear ready to throw out public education […]
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The Supreme Court Is About to Let Religion Ruin Public Education Read Post »
Mohsen Mahdawi, the Palestinian student at Columbia University who was arrested on April 14 at his naturalization interview in Vermont, was released on bail from federal custody on Wednesday. He is the first student to be released in the Trump administration’s widening crackdown on foreign students and academics who have been involved in Palestine advocacy […]
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Mohsen Mahdawi Has Been Released from Federal Custody Read Post »
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