education

In Argentina, massive student protests are being held against Milei’s cuts to public universities. …

September 2, 2024 editorial of the New Anticapitalist Party-Revolutionaries (NPA-R) in France, translated from French …

Lead has been found in Oakland schools’ water, and the response by school district officials has been inadequate. …

Biden announced a cancellation of $7.4 billion of student loan debt, but he is still part of the system that produced that debt in the first place …

For the first time, the college entrance exam SAT will be fully online, in a …

In the midst of a climate crisis of epic proportions, an ongoing genocide against Palestinians …

The California State University (CSU) system found itself in a clash with the California Faculty …

California State University faculty went on strike for better working and learning conditions. …

Houston Independent School District is converting school libraries into student discipline centers. …

Florida’s new standards for African American History downplay the historical oppression of Black people, even saying that slavery benefited slaves. …

If you were only reading the bombastic headlines from the past few weeks, you might …

On May 4 teachers in Oakland, California, went on a seven-day strike that ended with …

Rutgers workers won pay increases, but they will need to continue to fight against future challenges. …

The Supreme Court is hearing a case to determine whether or not Biden’s student loan …

On Tuesday, school staff represented by Service Employees International Union (SEIU), Local 99, in the …

Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida is creating a blueprint for reactionary control of public colleges …

February 22, 2023 marks the five-year anniversary of the West Virginia teachers’ strike. …

After a month-long, rotating strike that began in mid-January, 150,000 teachers and supporters staged a …

In August 2022, the College Board announced a new course offering: AP (Advanced Placement) African-American …

The Emmy award-winning show, Abbott Elementary, brings comedic light to serious problems within public schools – …

On Wednesday, January 11th, the School Board for the Oakland Unified School District voted to keep the five schools open that were originally under plans to be shut down at the end of this school year. …

In November, an estimated 70,000 researchers, academics and administrators went on strike at 150 different …

On Wednesday, October 12, faculty, staff, and students at Chadwick Elementary School were rushed from …

The case of a lost 9-year-old is one of the consequences of school closures, such as that of Parker Elementary school. …

August 31, 2022, Editorial of the Workplace Newsletters of the Etincelle fraction of the NPA, …

Thoughts from an elementary school teacher about 3 years of the pandemic. …

UCLA students won safety measures after a 16-day sit-in. …

The struggle to keep the school doors open may not be easy, but it is winnable. But it will take an even larger, more organized and continued mobilization by Oakland parents, students, teachers and staff to win this fight. …

In a society that prioritized the life and health of all people, every person would have access to a free education that empowered them to reach their full potential. But under capitalism, the purpose of education is to keep schools open so that the economy keeps going and the profits keep rolling in. …

While there may be some people who look at our schools and see them as a money-making opportunity, these schools are our schools. It is not their decision to make — it is ours. We must link up across school communities to stand side by side and say, “no school closures!” …

On January 13, teachers in the National Education system went on strike en masse. Even the leading parents’ federation had called for children not to go to school. …

A teacher in Baltimore gives a report about conditions in schools during the pandemic. …

Lecturers across the University of California system are going on strike for better working conditions. …

On November 6, 1968, the students of San Francisco State College (now San Francisco State University) began a strike against racism on their campus.  Just over four our months later it ended in educational reforms across that began to be mirrored around the country. …

It is now almost the middle of October, and we’ve been back at school since …

Six weeks into the school year, and many COVID safety measures are still not in place. …

If the district is going to provide every school the safety measures being demanded, it’s going to be because they were fought for. …

Schools across the United States are reopening without coherent plans of dealing with COVID-19 infections. …

The school I work at and love was experiencing hardship long before the pandemic. We almost never had soap or paper towels in classrooms or bathrooms. And now things are worse. …

The Crisis in Education The problems in education can’t be solved within a single classroom …

The choice that the system presents to us about school re-opening is a false one. We can do better. …

Rutgers University is using the pandemic as an opportunity to save money by making life difficult for its workers. …

Students, teachers and parents this fall are facing the consequences of our nation’s leaders’ inability and unwillingness to control the coronavirus pandemic. …

The U.S. education system has been presented as a pathway of opportunity for every generation – especially those from poor and working class backgrounds. …

As the school year begins, some states and districts have made the unhappy, but smart decision to start the school year remotely. …

Rather than accept the risks involved for both themselves and students, education workers in an Arizona school district decided enough was enough …

After the Democratic governor of California proposed $18 billion in budget cuts to education, a recent email from the OUSD Superintendent threatened an additional $16.5 million in budget cuts in Oakland. …

As the pandemic continues, University of California is crying poor …