Tag: education
‘Time for a jubilee!:’ US student loan debt hits record $1.46...
The amount of U.S. student loan debt has more than doubled since 2009 and now sits at a record $1.47 trillion.
How Betsy DeVos does the Koch brothers’ bidding
What’s largely been overlooked behind all the lurid headlines and endless insults are all the ways in which officials like DeVos are quietly at work continuing to use our tax money to advance a deeply troubling agenda.
Teacher strike threat backs off ExxonMobil
Within hours of the union vote to strike, the company’s exemption bids were off the Board of Industry and Commerce’s agenda.
The Christian vacation camp where kids are taught by notorious climate...
And what are they being taught? Conspiracy theories about the United Nations (U.N.) and how climate change is a hoax.
Education wave that began in West Virginia sweeps nation
Chances are, that if teachers are fed up, many more others are too.
How teachers might end up beating back the Koch brothers’ plan...
“Even before election day, we’ve already won because we’ve exposed the corruption of the Republican Party. There’s no hiding behind the curtains anymore.”
How the wealthy destroy public schools, one gift at a time
They’re certainly doing a good job of burning down public education.
Lift Us Up: Meet the activists on the front lines of...
We look at the criminalization of black and brown students that has led to what is known as the school-to-prison pipeline.
Fossil fuel divestment debates on campus spotlight the societal role of...
Divestment debates are forcing colleges and universities to reconsider how to contribute to a more resilient and sustainable future.
Hey! Democracy! Choices!
Our enlightened self-interest is at stake, the well-being of our children and grandchildren is in the balance. Let’s do right.
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DNC approach to Israel is political malpractice and moral failure
On no issue is that more apparent than the DNC’s insistence on treating Israel as above serious reproach.
The US bombs kids so Palmer Luckey can have nice things
Because for every bomb the U.S. and Israel drop, a bunch of men in cushy offices profit off all the death.
‘You can’t live without us’: How Big Oil pivoted from climate-friendly messaging to normalize...
More than 1,500 independent advertising agencies and 4,000 individual creatives have signed Clean Creatives’ pledge to refuse future fossil fuel contracts.
Oil regulators found hundreds of wells violating Oklahoma rules. Then they ignored their findings.
Oklahoma took on an ambitious project to catalog all of the state’s injection wells, which shoot toxic waste generated by oil drilling back into the ground. Despite records showing risk of drinking water pollution, the state chose not to act.
Thanks, MAGA, for exposing six corrosive myths that plague America—if we survive!
So kudos to today’s rightwing bellicosity for making clear the U.S. unilaterally wields deadly, rapacious power, whether sensible or stupid or gratuitous.