Education
Take me home, West Virginia: Mountain state teachers celebrate in DC
June 22, 2018The teachers won, but they aren’t done. They’re pointing towards November’s election and a chance to unseat anti-teacher, anti-worker lawmakers.
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Angela Davis: “Education must not be sacrificed at the altar of profit”
June 19, 2018Capitalism’s version of knowledge may allow us to figure out how to produce more, acquire more, and ultimately destroy more, but it will not give us an ethical sense of our responsibility to living beings.
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Working Family Summer: School’s out, what to do with the kids?
May 17, 2018How come some politicians are so eager to cut property taxes or give tax breaks to big companies, but they’ve got no cash for kids’ programs?
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Adjuncts of the world, unite!
May 10, 2018Many people still think professors make a lot of money. We adjuncts, however, don’t. We have the same credentials and responsibilities as full-time tenured faculty, but we make a fraction of the money.
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“We Run UC”—Support workers strike the Univ. of California system
May 9, 2018A study conducted by AFSCME Local 3299 shows starting wages of black and Latino workers are about 20 percent lower than those of their white counterparts.
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