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First-person accounts from student activists, organizers and journalists reporting on youth-oriented movements for social justice, economic equality and tolerance.

Interns’ Favorite Articles of the Week (1/18/2013) Interns’ Favorite Articles of the Week (1/18/2013)

This week: Standardized testing and armed guards in schools, the story behind Facebook Graph Search and questions of black female agency in "Django Unchained".

Jan 20, 2013 / StudentNation / StudentNation

Dispatches From the US Student Movement

Dispatches From the US Student Movement Dispatches From the US Student Movement

A space for students to share news about the wide range of social and political struggles in which they're involved.

Jan 18, 2013 / StudentNation / StudentNation

Movement to End High-Stakes Testing Steps Up in Seattle Movement to End High-Stakes Testing Steps Up in Seattle

Teachers at two Seattle high schools violate district policy and their union contracts by refusing to administer a mandatory test. And signs abound that teachers around the nation ...

Jan 16, 2013 / StudentNation / Dean Paton and StudentNation

NYC School Bus Drivers Strike in Defense of Job Security NYC School Bus Drivers Strike in Defense of Job Security

Should decent wage jobs be considered an unnecessary burden or a critical part of a civilized urban metropolis?

Jan 16, 2013 / StudentNation / Matthew Cunningham-Cook and StudentNation

What CUNY Pathways Means for Undergraduates What CUNY Pathways Means for Undergraduates

Pathways has less to do with protecting the interests of students than it does with meeting the needs of an administration seeking to cut costs at the bottom and consolidate power ...

Jan 16, 2013 / StudentNation / Michael Busch and StudentNation

Fighting Education Shock Therapy Fighting Education Shock Therapy

With tools from 1964, community activists are pushing the White House to turn federal education policy around.

Jan 15, 2013 / StudentNation / James Cersonsky and StudentNation

High School Students Demand Gun-Control High School Students Demand Gun-Control

Each time a major shooting occurs, anger swells for a few days and promptly disappears. We won’t let this happen again.

Jan 15, 2013 / StudentNation / Daniel Judt, Nick Barber, and StudentNation

Millennials and Guns

Millennials and Guns Millennials and Guns

The youth-driven Gun Violence Prevention Task Force aims to delineate reasonable but meaningful solutions.

Jan 14, 2013 / StudentNation / Ryan Dahrouge, Jamira Burley, and StudentNation

Astroturf Activism: Who is Behind Students for Education Reform? Astroturf Activism: Who is Behind Students for Education Reform?

SFER, a student network that has exploded on more than 100 college campuses across the country since it was started in 2009, is an “education reform” front for a lobbyi...

Jan 11, 2013 / StudentNation / George Joseph and StudentNation

Millennials Occupy TransCanada Offices Across the US Millennials Occupy TransCanada Offices Across the US

Young people across the nation are using militant nonviolent tactics in an effort to spread the message that we can’t afford to continue down an unsustainable path for our cl...

Jan 11, 2013 / StudentNation / Candice Bernd and StudentNation

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