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Decades after apartheid South Africa, student activists face a new obstacle: the financialization of university endowments.
Forty years ago, the exiled South African activist dared to teach Zionism critically. A furious backlash ensued.
Private universities should respond to the charge of hypocrisy with a maximalist approach to free speech.
Not only does censorship allow the slaughter of Palestinians to continue; it also serves as the mirror and justification for state violence.
The crisis here spells disaster for the future of public education.
Institutional reform is no match for pervasive structural inequality.
In her scholarship, mentoring, and activism, Farah Jasmine Griffin brings a praxis of radical love to an unequal academy.
Building public trust requires far more than the conveyance of facts and instruction in scientific thinking.
“Don’t Say Gay” laws can be traced to the Reagan-era crusade to put “parents' rights” before the interests of children.
During the Cold War, El Paso public schools knew this too when they taught the children of former Nazis how to be white Americans.
The Judge Rotenberg Center, a Massachusetts school, still uses electric shock therapy to punish disabled students. How can an entire field of mental health accept this as fine?
Even as they carve out space for Black scholarship, established universities remain deeply complicit in racial capitalism. We must think beyond them.
Education is not inherently liberatory: it has always been an arena for broader struggles over who has access to knowledge and to what ends learning is put.
Artist-activist Shellyne Rodriguez speaks with Billie Anania about museum labor practices and how Strike MoMA imagines a future of art for the people.
Why the left’s turn from higher education has coincided with a newfound conservative appreciation for it.
Two new books take aim at the moral failures of meritocracy. But we can advocate for a more just society without giving up on merit.
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