Education Reform
Students Don't Fail Because They Are Lazy
Jill Richardson: In my experience, low grades mean something is wrong. Often the problem is mental health. Sometimes the problem is something temporary but difficult in the student's life, like a death in the family.
Lack of Reliable Internet Leaves Poor Students Behind
Remote learning via the internet has been a challenge for most students. There is a huge gap between the students with strong internet connections and those who don't have them.
Refusing Student Loan Payment Becomes a Solution
The people getting these loans are people who really need those loans. Poor students are the ones left holding significant amounts of debt, very late into life.
The Danger of Empathy
The need for Human beings around us to remain sane. Role-play is a powerful tool that teaches how bigotry and hatred can blind us to the suffering of others.
Community Schools: ‘Troubled’ District May Yet be Helped
As a parent organizer, Guzman described how outreach to families had to start from scratch - few schools had active parent teacher associations. So she created “community schools circles.”
High School Diploma Requirement Questioned in California
If more students whose educations were disrupted by the pandemic can get to and finish college, California as a whole will be better off with the new graduates.
Trumpism and the "Free Market" Myth
Stagnant wages and insecure jobs for most people, and the erosion of the middle class, are not the consequences of the so-called “free market.” They are the results of a massive shift in power.
Vouchers Harm Public Education by Siphoning Funds
The imperfections of America weren’t just nightly news after school; they were situations we or our classmates were contending with every single day. We couldn’t just say, ‘not my problem.’
Why Going “Hard” Is Taking the Easy Way Out
Is this truly what we want our schools to look like — pseudo-military bunkers for the (hot) war increasingly blazing in our society?
Why Has the Cerritos College Faculty Union Organized a Strike Committee?
Cerritos College employees through their unions are now collaborating against the anti-employee posture of the Board of Trustees.
The Government Should Make Social Media Platforms Safer for Youth
A 2018 study indicated that frequent users of image-based social media platforms reported more anxiety, depression, and body image concerns than less frequent users.
California Public Schools are Losing Underpaid Teachers
Districts struggle to fill open positions and see new waves of teacher departures this summer. Plenty of them grab a side hustle. To know more, click here!
Those who have student loans must start paying
Twenty-seven million Americans have student loan debt, totaling more than $1.7 billion. One in four Black women carries such obligation.
Should Government Stop Making Student Loans?
The loan programs were well-meant, but in addition to harming many of their "beneficiaries" they have caused an incredible increase in the cost of higher education.
How Can We Educate for the Common Good?
Robert Reich: Six prerequisites for learning about one's duties to society
Michigan Public School Parents Fight Back Against Betsy DeVos’ Privatization Agenda
Protesters from outside of Lowell come to school board meetings and hurl allegations at board members, including now-familiar accusations of “liberal agendas.”
Hit Reset on Student Debt, All $1,896,944,109,232 of it
It’s time for Biden to do the right thing. Every day it’s more obvious that having 46 million people drowning in $1.8 trillion of student debt isn’t sustainable.
Oakland Community Schools Worked, District Shut Them Down Anyway
Oakland seems uniquely at the forefront of difficult policy questions. Are districts that are adopting the community schools model, like California and Maryland, paying attention?
Pressure Building on Biden to Cancel Student Loan Debt
Executive action to cancel $50,000 in student loan debt would increase Black wealth by 40 percent.
A School System Goes to Hell and Back Again
You probably won’t be surprised to know that public schools have been in perpetual crisis for a long time.
LAUSD: Some Post-Covid Numbers
Poverty has increased in LAUSD post-covid. And in two board districts the late Eli Broad’s plan to transfer half of LAUSD into “charter school seats” is nearly fulfilled.
Minneapolis Teacher Strike Unites Allies of Public Education
Members of the Coalition of Student Leaders note the increase in political activism and awareness of public education as a key highlight of the strike.