Education
Public Tools for Public Schools: Stopping tech giants’ online education takeover
June 29, 2020The tech oligarchs are about to get a lot richer, and you and I are going to pay for it.
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Class struggle intersectionality in the fight for graduate student housing justice
June 23, 2020Racial capitalism is the main foundation of this super-exploitation. This is just as true in graduate STEM education as it is in society generally.
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DeVos rescinds Title IX rule protecting student survivors of sexual violence
May 21, 2020DeVos wants to put survivors through trial-like “hearings” where the victims would have to relive the brutality all over again.
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Corporate consultants Bain & Company size up Los Angeles schools
May 21, 2020While families have been scrambling to homeschool, the District’s Superintendent and former investment-banker Austin Beutner has sought guidance from the world of corporate management consulting.
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Obama, in two speeches, criticizes Trump and challenges grads to grab control
May 20, 2020Stepping out of what had been a self-imposed silence on discussing his successor, former President Barack Obama slammed Donald Trump in speeches to graduates.
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