Our schools should teach dissent. Indeed, a flourishing democracy depends on an informed and active citizenry who will speak out when they find laws to be unjust.
As a student-led movement for gun control sweeps the country, we look back with a leader in the student movement that desegregated the University of Georgia in 1961.
100 Parkland students travelled 450 miles to the state capital while others at dozens of high schools walked out in support of #NeverAgain
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A new study reveals that more, and more diverse, US college students voted in 2016. What are the implications for future elections?
Twenty years after the murders of students at Kent State (May 4) and Jackson State (May 15), in 1970, Holly Near wrote "And It Could Have Me." in 1990. "The song has grown over the years, new verses being added as violence continues to interrupt human potential." Today with Trump as President and a right-wing GOP-cabal in control, the song has new meaning - "it could have been me; But instead it was you; So I’ll keep doing the work you were doing as if I were two."
Scholars from multiple disciplines around the world, weigh in on the social, psychological and political issues impacting transgender students.
By defining students as intellectual workers and transforming student unions into vehicles for social, economic, and racial justice, a new generation of young workers will transform the union movement and challenge the conventional wisdom of neoliberalism.
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