Global Experts
Schools may be in trouble, assesses Vermont poet Ann Fisher, but not the fault of students who create their own “precipitation” despite “all the measured wisdom/ we’ve provided.”
‘Frankenstein’ Apartments and Weak Libraries: Is This New York’s Future?
New York Times
After surviving the worst of the pandemic, the city now faces budget cuts that seem to promise even more disruption. The average rent of a Manhattan apartment is now reaching $5,249 a month, an increase of nearly 20 percent over the previous year.
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The Left Should Defend Classical Education
Jacobin
The great books aren’t just a collection of “dead white males,” and teaching or reading them isn’t elitist or Eurocentric. On the contrary, they are a treasure that should be made available and accessible to working-class people everywhere.
Haymarket Books Fights Back Against Republican Attacks on Educational Freedom
The American Prospect
This lefty publisher is giving out censored books for free in Florida. We know that books in and of themselves don't change the world. But people reading together, learning together, organizing together; people coming together to know these ideas, and to think about how our side wins is actually dangerous.
Who’s Afraid of Black History?
New York Times
As the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. so aptly put it, “No society can fully repress an ugly past when the ravages persist into the present.”
The Book That Exposed Anti-Black Racism in the Classroom
The Atlantic
As African American studies faces resistance, a conversation about the continued relevance of Carter G. Woodson’s 1933 book, The Mis-education of the Negro
The Meaning of African American Studies
The New Yorker
The discipline emerged from Black struggle. Now the College Board wants it to be taught with barely any mention of Black Lives Matter.
Ron DeSantis’s Attack on Black Studies Is Textbook Proto-Fascism
Truthout
Florida’s unapologetically racist governor, Ron DeSantis, has effectively declared war on the Black freedom movement.
New Poll: Voters Prioritize School Basics Over Culture Wars
AFT
Poll participants are not interested in an agenda prioritizing political fights over things like book bans and limitations on how to teach about race and gender and instead support real solutions, like getting our kids and teachers what they need to recover and thrive
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