Tag: students
The Trump administration thinks grad students aren’t workers. Grad students tell...
In 2016, the National Labor Relations Board ruled that student researchers and teaching assistants at private universities have the right to collectively...
Inconsistent testing standards leads to lead exposure in school drinking water
"The concern is that while we are not taking much action, children are being damaged on a generational level."
Using students, teachers, journalists and other professionals as spies puts everyone...
Spying is a dirty business, whoever does it.
How Native American children benefit from trauma-informed schools
Students in these communities are disproportionately affected by trauma. When they act out, adults with training ask, “Is there anything I can do to help you?” rather than “Why are you acting this way?”
In March for Our Lives, student rights have become human rights
The young have long been that catalyst for change, and the Never Again movement is a continuation of that tradition.
Photo essay: Eight reasons students walked out over gun laws
“All of these students will be voting in the next four years. We will be in the driver’s seat.”
Learning the power of protest, confrontation and collective action, where will...
The kids are rising!
High school students
So what was it about the Parkland killings that tipped the scale? This is among the questions we teachers have been asking one another at school recently.
Gun control after Parkland: Student survivors lead the way
Undeterred, the students are on the move. They are organizing a march on the nation's capital and in cities around the country, on March 24.
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Greta Thunberg on climate promises versus actions
Thunberg sat down in her Stockholm kitchen to talk about what she expects—and hopes—will come from the global event.
6 ways restaurants can reduce their environmental impact
The restaurant industry struggles to meet consumers’ sustainability standards because of conventional management patterns.
Toxic Clichés
Our students will be facing challenges beyond what we can begin to imagine, if these past few years are any indication, crises that require far-ranging intelligence, imagination, sensitivity.
Exposed: how Pfizer exploits secretive vaccine contracts to strong-arm governments
“Pfizer has used its monopoly on a lifesaving vaccine to extract concessions from desperate governments,” said the report’s author, urging action from the Biden administration.
Taking aim at predatory equity firms, Warren leads bill to ‘stop Wall Street looting’
"Private equity firms get rich off of stripping assets from companies, loading them up with a bunch of debt, and then leaving workers, consumers, and whole communities in the dust."