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January 16, 2019
South Dakota’s Cruel Attack on Trans High School Athletes
South Dakota’s Senate Bill 49 is a transparent attack on the most vulnerable of high-school students.
Dave Zirin
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January 15, 2019
Stand With Los Angeles Teachers on Strike
Plus ways to support furloughed federal workers and oppose Betsy Devos’s destructive sexual-assault policies.
NationAction
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January 15, 2019
‘This Model of Education Is Not Sustainable’
Yes, raises are important, but LA’s teachers are striking so their students have a fair shot at an education.
Sarah Jaffe
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January 14, 2019
What the LA Teachers Strike Is All About
California is home to the industrial giants of Silicon Valley, the film industry, and the largest agricultural sector in the nation, but it has starved its public schools of resources for years.
Pedro Noguera
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January 14, 2019
LA’s Teachers’ Strike Will Be the Toughest Yet
The Los Angeles teachers’ strike begins today. It’s going to be the most difficult struggle so far in the educators’ revolt sweeping the country.
Eric Blanc
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January 11, 2019
School Is Crushing My Daughter’s Spirit. What Should I Do?
Another reader asks what she can do about an acquaintance who drunkenly groped her on New Year’s Eve.
Liza Featherstone
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December 5, 2018
Eve Ewing’s Lesson in Grassroots Sociology
The poet, academic, and Twitter star’s illuminating book on school closings in Chicago’s Southside is a model for a different kind of sociology.
Nawal Arjini
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November 1, 2018
Jahana Hayes Is Poised to Make History
The Democratic congressional candidate from Connecticut says that growing up in poverty “grounded my decision-making and framed everything I do.”
Greg Kaufmann
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September 26, 2018
The Body in Poverty
The decline of America’s rural health system and its toll on my family.
Sarah Smarsh
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September 20, 2018
When Disaster Capitalism Comes for the University of Puerto Rico
The ongoing privatization of Puerto Rico’s recovery threatens not only the university’s autonomy, but its very existence.
Rima Brusi, Yarimar Bonilla and Isar Godreau