Education
Students empower themselves through union solidarity
March 10, 2014The importance of a work sector being organized is unparalleled but what really counts is when it creates a ripple effect on the surrounding sectors.
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“Calpurnia Tate”: a girl comes of age in Texas
March 7, 2014Jacqueline Kelly's engrossing young adult novel set on on a Texas cotton and pecan farm with 338 pages that seemingly turn themselves, is a coming of age tale with vast relevance for today's readers.
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AFT exposes for-profit charter school industry
March 6, 2014AFT is launching a campaign to expose the for-profit charter school industry as more interested in profits for its CEOs and stockholders than it is in teaching kids.
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Faculty in tough negotiations at Harris-Stowe State U
February 27, 2014"It often feels like students are an afterthought and professors are an inconvenience."
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From wealth gap to voting rights, labor takes a stand
February 21, 2014From opposing "fast-track" trade treaty bargaining authority to restoring and expanding voting rights, the AFL-CIO Executive Council committed the labor movement to specific stands on a select group of high-profile issues.
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