New Student Loan Relief Makes No Dent in Crisis

New Student Loan Relief Makes No Dent in Crisis

Recently President Biden announced that $7.4 billion in student debt will be canceled. Those affected are only people who have been forced to repay loans for over 10 years, and the national student loan debt still stands at over $1.7 trillion. Amid election year...
Vanderbilt Students Protest Suppression

Vanderbilt Students Protest Suppression

Last Tuesday, March 26, police arrested four students and as many as twenty more were suspended on the campus of Tennessee’s Vanderbilt University after they occupied the university’s main hall for twenty-two hours. A local reporter was also arrested. Right-wing media...
Standardized Tests Don’t Fix Education Inequality

Standardized Tests Don’t Fix Education Inequality

For the first time, the college entrance exam SAT will be fully online, in a newer, shorter version. Top institutions will reinstate the SAT in admissions, reversing the pandemic-era decision to make the test optional. The shifts surrounding the exam have started a...
Durham School Staff Defy the Threat of Wage Cuts

Durham School Staff Defy the Threat of Wage Cuts

When Durham School System announced that 1,300 “classified staff,” (janitors, IT workers, teachers’ aides, and cafeteria employees) would receive a seven percent wage increase, one delighted worker told a local newspaper, “We’re starting to get the pay we deserve.”...
Oakland School Communities Hold Teach-In for Palestine

Oakland School Communities Hold Teach-In for Palestine

In response to the state of Israel’s horrific, genocidal brutality against the Palestinian people, hundreds of thousands people around the world have expressed their outrage. People have poured into the streets in mass demonstrations, occupied government...