Education

California Tuition Protest

A Serious Push for Free College in California A Serious Push for Free College in California

A ballot initiative campaign to restore tuition-free college in California is gaining momentum for the November election, a model other states could follow.

Feb 6, 2018 / Chuck Collins

Nogales border wall

These Students Learn About State Violence at the Busiest Border Patrol Sector in the Country These Students Learn About State Violence at the Busiest Border Patrol Sector in the Country

This program shows students how to understand and oppose the violence happening at the US/Mexico border.

Feb 1, 2018 / StudentNation / Gabriel Matthew Schivone

Marine School Shooting Drill

Teachers Are Being Trained to Shoot Their Students Teachers Are Being Trained to Shoot Their Students

But we can’t shoot our way out of America’s gun-violence crisis.

Feb 1, 2018 / Column / Patricia J. Williams

Black Lives Matter Harvard

For Students of Color, Ivy League Schools Have a Long Way to Go For Students of Color, Ivy League Schools Have a Long Way to Go

You may have entered an elite institution, but, as a student of color, you hardly feel welcome.

Jan 25, 2018 / StudentNation / Gabriela Thorne

Larry Nassar

Larry Nassar’s Imprisonment and Lou Anna Simon’s Resignation Are Not Nearly Enough Larry Nassar’s Imprisonment and Lou Anna Simon’s Resignation Are Not Nearly Enough

An institution turned a blind eye to serial sexual assault. An institution needs to be held accountable.

Jan 25, 2018 / Dave Zirin and David Tigabu

College Rally Against Campus Rape

#MeToo Is Changing the Definition of ‘Bad Sex’ #MeToo Is Changing the Definition of ‘Bad Sex’

The “enthusiastic consent” standard imagines a future in which pressure and coercion aren’t part of bad sex at all.

Jan 24, 2018 / Collier Meyerson

White

How the Alt-Right Uses Social Science to Make Racism Respectable How the Alt-Right Uses Social Science to Make Racism Respectable

It’s a strategy long in the making.

Jan 15, 2018 / Feature / Khalil Gibran Muhammad

Kenneth Marcus

Students Beware: This Trump Nominee Doesn’t Believe in Your Civil Rights Students Beware: This Trump Nominee Doesn’t Believe in Your Civil Rights

Kenneth Marcus has a history of opposing affirmative action and attacking the First Amendment rights of Israel critics.

Jan 10, 2018 / StudentNation / Dima Khalidi

France secularism

French Secularism Is in Crisis. What Does That Mean for Muslim Youth? French Secularism Is in Crisis. What Does That Mean for Muslim Youth?

Three years after the Charlie Hebdo attacks, students in the banlieues debate secularism and the state.

Jan 8, 2018 / Karina Piser

Aaron Maybin

Aaron Maybin Stands Up for Baltimore Students on the Brink Aaron Maybin Stands Up for Baltimore Students on the Brink

Palace intrigue makes for good copy. But real suffering takes place in its shadows.

Jan 5, 2018 / Dave Zirin

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