After teacher strikes in Los Angeles and Denver, Oakland teachers are now the latest to take to the picket lines to demand a better educational atmosphere. Teachers in Oakland entered their second day of a ...
Another teachers strike comes to an end as Denver teachers reached a deal and returned to schools. The Denver Public School district and local teachers union reached a temporary compromise agreement at 6:00 on Thursday ...
The Denver teachers union rejected another proposal from the metropolitan school district during the latest negotiation. With one of the lowest teacher salaries in the nation, 93 percent of Colorado teachers in the Denver Classroom Teachers ...
Spain’s drive towards bilingual education to increase their global competitiveness may be doing more harm than good. English language proficiency rates in Spain have lagged behind those of other European Union members for decades, and ...
An unspoken casualty of war, education or rather the lack thereof could quite literally push Yemen into the abyss of radicalism. Presenting the Global Humanitarian Overview for 2019, Emergency Relief Coordinator Mark Lowcock for the ...
As student debt hits new record-setting highs, data also reveals recent student graduates are struggling even more than past graduates to repay their debts. A staggering number of US student loan debtors can’t repay their loans ...
It’s no secret that the UK is a magnet for many overseas students. It offers a lot of opportunity to them, as well as a first class education that will be respected wherever they go. ...
Dorin Shen is Senior Product Strategist for Canvas, the open online learning management system (LMS) that makes teaching and learning easier. Through open, usable, cloud-based technologies, Canvas enables easy integration of the content, tools, and ...
Student homelessness is at an all-time high in New York City. Statistics from the Advocates for Children of New York show that 114,659 students in New York public schools are homeless. The study further says ...
Introduction: Fire in the library The national student debt recently hit $1.5 trillion in May 2018, more than doubling from $600 billion just ten years ago. It is difficult to grasp the scale of these numbers. ...
Singapore already one of the world’s top performers in education announced education reforms to de-emphasize competition and focus on individual development. Singapore, which has one of the highest achieving education systems in the world, just ...
Rice University announced a big new free tuition program for low and middle-income students, will other universities follow? On Tuesday Rice University, a prestigious private university in Texas, announced a new plan called the Rice Investment ...
An old form of school punishment has been reinstated at a Georgia charter school, just in time for the new school year. The Georgia School for Innovation and the Classics has reinstated corporal punishment and ...
All Florida public schools are now required to exhibit the state motto phrase “In God We Trust” in a visible space, in accordance with a measure passed by Florida Governor Rick Scott. In March, Scott ...
In the words of 19th-century educator and reformer Horace Mann, education should be the “great equalizer” of opportunity in a society, but this is not America’s reality. Some school districts have fallen deeply into debt, ...
“Jane the Virgin” star Gina Rodriguez is forgoing her Emmy Awards campaign to fund an aspiring college student’s education instead. In preparation for the 2018 Emmy nominations that will be announced in July, standard protocol involves major ...
The heirs of Walmart, the Waltons, are well known for supporting school choice; they committed in 2016 to spend $1 billion on charters over five years. The Walton Foundation website has a “public charter startup grant.” https://www.waltonfamilyfoundation.org/grants/public-charter-startup-grants Steuart ...
There’s something tragic and unequivocally devastating happening to men in America today. During this #MeToo era, men are seen as rapists and misogynists when in fact most are gentlemen. Sadly, men are literally a ...
Black Panther star Chadwick Boseman delivered a powerful commencement speech at Howard University on Saturday, applauding students for their victory in on-campus protests and discussing his early struggles as a black actor. The graduation ceremony marked the end of ...
CHECK OUT THIS RESISTANCE PODCAST! Listen⇒KVoice of Resistance Welcome to this episode of KVoice of Resistance! We cover a lot that you will not find in the headlines beneath the noise of the dumpster fire ...
It is been roughly four years since the Ebola virus hit West Africa, locals and ebola victims are still traumatized to date. The epidemic left over 11,000 people dead, with another 29,000 infected. Though it ...
University teachers from 61 different universities are on strike in an effort to prevent severe pension cuts. The strikes effect an estimated 1 million students across the U.K. The U.K. teachers’ strike has been the ...
Grammy award-winning pop superstar Rihanna is teaming up with French President Emmanuel Macron to help bring education to developing countries, notably in conflict and crisis areas. On Friday in Dakar, Senegal, Rihanna co-headlined a conference ...
THE REPUBLICAN TAX BILL SUCKS, BUT THIS PODCAST DOESN’T! Listen⇒KVoice of Resistance On this episode of your Resistance podcast, Republicans are pulling a reverse Robin Hood on you, and no, that is not a frat ...
ProPublica editor Daniel Golden wrote a book a decade ago about how the rich buy their children access to elite colleges. One student (Jared Kushner), he covered is now poised to become one of the ...
Greasy politicians use education funds to enrich corporations — and themselves. (OtherWords, by Jim Hightower) Betsy DeVos and her husband Dick are lucky: They inherited a big chunk of the multi-billion-dollar fortune that Dick’s dad ...
5 facts to know about the student loan debt problem. Is the college debt bubble going to cause the next recession? 1.Trillions in debt 2. Sky rocketing tuition costs 3. Sky rocketing text book costs ...