Quantcast

Nation Topics - Education | The Nation

Topic Page

Articles

News and Features

HIGH SCHOOL WINNER: A graduating high school senior reflects on her generation's embattled future—and its dwindling access to quality education.

COLLEGE WINNER: Catastrophe is different when it is personal.

Penn State fans

There is a message here about masculine privilege.

Students with laptops

Under the banner of high-tech progress, corporate lobbyists have rammed through legislation privatizing K-12 education across the country.

Melissa Benn

Melissa Benn attacks the deepening rift of privilege and privatization in Britain’s secondary schools.

Occupy College

The crushing burden of student debt has shattered the American dream for a whole generation. They want their future back.

If peacemaking is teachable, why are school so reluctant to offer classes in peace studies?

Congress has been unable to pass NCLB reform because the Tea Party has eroded the decade long bi-partisan consensus on education policy.

Chilean students are no longer willing to accept mountains of debt to gain an education, and they have taken over campuses to fight for greater access to the country's universities.

The journalist blames teachers unions, not economic inequality, for students’ failure to achieve.

Blogs

Several former Chilean student leaders are capitalizing on their high approval ratings to run for Congress and challenge Chile binomial voting system.

April 28, 2013

This week, Chicago and Wittenberg walk out, Ohio and Macalester sit-in and Michigan blocks the street for tuition equality. Nationwide, students demand that immigration reform include LGBT people and spread awareness of Title IX rights. 
 

April 26, 2013

As the school year draws to an end, activists fear that this tuition decision marks the end of free higher education in the United States.

April 23, 2013

In West Virginia, one high school student is standing up for her right to hear the truth—the whole truth—about sexual health.

April 19, 2013

America's school suspension rates reflect—and shape—the disparities at work in the nation at large.

April 17, 2013

A school-closing hearing in Chicago becomes a test of whether corporate-driven school "reform" can be responsive and humane.

April 16, 2013

This week, Newark walks out, Arizona kneecaps its students and UNC rape survivors create a national underground network. And more!

April 15, 2013

With HB 2169, which prohibits the use of student fees for political advocacy, students are the new victims of Arizona's right-wing regime. 

April 12, 2013

In the latest picks, activists organize around education, economist Richard Wolff tells it like it is and Farc and the Colombian government make progress towards peace. Who said no news is good news?

April 12, 2013

Without a mechanism to ensure equality of access in all Boston communities, it's inevitable that wealthier communities will have access to the good schools.

April 8, 2013