Thursday, April 17, 2025

Tag: education

USDA ends school food program halting more than $1 billion in...

Two program providing schools and food banks with money to buy from local farmers and ranchers were recently ended by the United States Department of Agriculture.

Rule Breakers: The compelling true story of Afghan girls who risked...

Rule Breakers highlights the unique transformative power of education and raises awareness about the crucial importance of the right to education for girls in Afghanistan.

McMahon confirmation exposes Trump’s plan to dismantle public education

Educators, unions, and civil rights advocates warn that the Trump administration’s agenda would devastate public schools, privatize education, and gut federal oversight.

‘Educational arson’: Trump moves to abolish Dept. of Education amid broader...

We speak to longtime educator Jesse Hagopian about what he calls an “extremist, authoritarian power grab to dismantle public education and enforce ideological conformity.”

University of Toronto students score a win for the climate—and campus...

“This victory shows students have the ability to enact institutional change."

A progressive vision for education in the 21st century

This system spans early childhood education, K-12 education, higher education, and workforce development—each piece a load-bearing support for the American dream.

Israel’s scholasticide and the irrelevance of US politics: 11,923 Palestinian...

“With more than 80 percent of schools in Gaza damaged or destroyed, it may be reasonable to ask if there is an intentional effort to comprehensively destroy the Palestinian education system, an action known as ‘scholasticide.'”

Chicago teachers want to transform their city into a ‘system of...

Headbutting and friction continue in the battle of big ideas vs. entrenched leadership.

Knowledge is power. Gaza war supporters don’t want students to have...

Silence is complicity, and that’s the way Israel’s allies like it. For them, the new academic term restarts a threat to the status quo.

Republican judge blocks student debt relief rule before it’s finalized, delaying...

The Biden administration has been working to alleviate the burden of student loans, especially for long-term borrowers who have been repaying loans for decades.

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It’s time for ‘unified groups’ to declare war against Trump’s unscrupulous retribution schemes

They must use all the innovative techniques that they have to take down Trump before he turns them into his slaves, and America into a fascist state.

An Indian drugmaker, investigated by ProPublica last year, has recalled two dozen medications sold...

FDA inspectors found serious problems at a Glenmark factory in India that manufactured the recalled drugs.

Democrats push to ban congressional stock trading amid tariff-triggered market scandal

Lawmakers intensify calls to outlaw stock trades by members of Congress following Trump’s tariff reversal and suspicious GOP investments.

Trump may be blowing the economy up on purpose

Working-class Americans should view a purposefully engineered recession as blatant aggression by the ownership class.

New study finds CT scans to account for 5 percent of cancer diagnoses

While some experts caution against CT scans, many believe the modeling used in this study left much uncertainty.