Education

Oklahoma Teacher

It’s Time to Develop a Progressive Education Agenda It’s Time to Develop a Progressive Education Agenda

The failures of the education-reform movement have created an opportunity for the left. We need to seize it.

Apr 29, 2019 / Pedro Noguera

Eric Hobsbawm

Chronicling the Age of Hobsbawm: A Q&A With Historian Richard Evans Chronicling the Age of Hobsbawm: A Q&A With Historian Richard Evans

“The more I have read his writings, the more I have come to admire and respect him not just as an historian but as a person.”

Apr 26, 2019 / Sebastiaan Faber

Students protest DeVos

The Real College-Admissions Scandal Is America’s Unjust Financial-Aid Process The Real College-Admissions Scandal Is America’s Unjust Financial-Aid Process

A Title I public-school counselor recounts how systemic barriers punish low-income students who want to go to college.

Apr 24, 2019 / StudentNation / Emmeline Clein

Stop Defunding Our Public Schools Stop Defunding Our Public Schools

Across the country, education budgets have been slashed in favor of bloated military budgets and tax cuts for the rich. 

Apr 18, 2019 / Belle Chesler

School-District Secessions Are Gathering Speed, a New Report Shows

School-District Secessions Are Gathering Speed, a New Report Shows School-District Secessions Are Gathering Speed, a New Report Shows

Wealthy school districts are increasingly splitting from poorer, more diverse ones.

Apr 17, 2019 / StudentNation / Emmanuel Felton

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In Arizona, High-School Students Are Making Mental Health the Focus of Anti-Gun-Violence Legislation In Arizona, High-School Students Are Making Mental Health the Focus of Anti-Gun-Violence Legislation

They’re tired of seeing overworked counselors, and they’re tired of not being listened to—students’ mental health, they say, matters.

Apr 9, 2019 / StudentNation / Jordan Harb and Emma Rowland

Tommie Smith and John Carlos

San Jose State Will Build a Parking Structure on Hallowed Ground San Jose State Will Build a Parking Structure on Hallowed Ground

By paving a historic track to put up a parking lot, the school is erasing history.

Apr 5, 2019 / Dave Zirin

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Letters From the April 22, 2019, Issue Letters From the April 22, 2019, Issue

Led astray by the third way… Walker’s downfall… Nuclear insanity… Making scammers pay…

Apr 4, 2019 / Our Readers

Campus Segregation

American Meritocracy Is a Myth American Meritocracy Is a Myth

Recent scandals in politics and higher education show how the rich perpetuate inequality in the US.

Apr 2, 2019 / Rajan Menon

Green New Deal

What 16 Young People Think About the Green New Deal What 16 Young People Think About the Green New Deal

“This legislation is not only about saving the planet. It is about reimagining the way that we live.”

Apr 1, 2019 / StudentNation / StudentNation

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