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Chilean student leaders inspire U.S. activists

October 25, 2012 By Lisa Bergmann

Chilean student leaders Camila Vallejo and Noam Titelman visit the United States.

Today in history: 200,000 students boycotted Chicago public schools

October 22, 2012 By Barbara Russum

On October 22, 1963, a coalition of civil rights groups organized Freedom Day, a mass boycott and demonstration against segregated schools and inadequate resources for black students.

Pakistan rallies around Malala Yousafzai

October 16, 2012 By Marilyn Bechtel

The 15-year-old Pakistani woman gravely wounded in a Taliban attack, has come to symbolize a broadening struggle in that country, against the extremist views the Taliban seeks to enforce there.

Anti-teacher-union “Won’t Back Down” flunks at box office

October 3, 2012 By Susan Webb

"Won't Back Down," the Hollywood movie portraying teachers unions as pretty much the devil, has set the record for the worst opening since 1982.

Unions back universities in race and admissions Supreme Court case

September 28, 2012 By Mark Gruenberg

Declaring that, still, "race matters" in schools and society, unionsare siding with top universities in a U.S. Supreme Court case on the role of race in college admissions.