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Racial Profiling in Public Schools: Black Students Under Fire By EARL OFARI HUTCHINSON...
Posted: Tue, Jan 17, 2006 7:41am PST
Who Reads in America? While many educators bemoan the decline of literacy in America, one writer says you can still find plenty of readers in the private corners and cracks of society....
Posted: Mon, Jan 9, 2006 9:32pm PST
3/13-17th: National Week of Campus Action Against the War NATIONAL WEEK OF CAMPUS ACTION
Week of March 13-17
Students Say NO to War in Iraq!
College Not Combat, Troops Out Now!...
Posted: Wed, Jan 4, 2006 11:38pm PST
D’s and F’s For ‘No Child Left Behind’ Nearly four years into the federal No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) the nation’s urban school districts have shown little benefit from the law which mandated annual reading and math tests for all students in grades 3 through 8. But the most worrisome trend is that most urban schools are making no progress in reducing the achievement gap between white and minority students. That’s the word from eleven large urban school districts including Los Angeles....
Posted: Tue, Jan 3, 2006 10:20pm PST
No Peace in Southern Indiana: Teacher Fired for Talking About Peace? By JEFF WHITE...
Posted: Sun, Dec 18, 2005 11:11am PST
Action Alert: Flyer Syriana We are mobilizing volunteers to distribute educational flyers to moviegoers before and after Syriana....
Posted: Thu, Dec 8, 2005 9:45pm PST
Fight Racism & Censorship at New School New School Administrators are targeting a graduate student because she organized an all-black panel to speak on topics they consider "controversial."...
Posted: Tue, Dec 6, 2005 8:01am PST
NYU Grad Student Strike: A Debate On the Rights of Students to Unionize The New York University graduate student strike has entered its 24th day. On November 9th, some of the school's graduate student teaching and research assistants went on strike in an effort to force the school to recognize the graduate student union. We host a debate between Michael Palm, chair of the student union, and Paul Boghossian, professor of philosophy who is representing the administration....
Posted: Fri, Dec 2, 2005 7:12am PST
Hampton Univ. Students Face Disciplinary Action for Anti-Bush Walkout Seven students at Hampton University in Virginia face disciplinary action for staging a walkout during the World Can't Wait day of action against the Bush administration one month ago. Shortly before their scheduled disciplinary hearing, we speak with one of the walkout's main organizers....
Posted: Fri, Dec 2, 2005 7:11am PST
USA plans Dastardly Attack on Defenseless Orphans. USA is planning to test Dangerous Chemicals and Drugs on Orphans and innocent Children worldwide.
Is there a Body Bag for an Orphan near you? No child left behind....
Posted: Mon, Nov 28, 2005 7:14pm PST
Sneak Attack on Organic food standards by USA Industry sneak attack on organic standards rammed through congress....
Posted: Sat, Nov 26, 2005 5:30pm PST
The World Can't Wait! Drive out the Bush Regime! World Can’t Wait! Drive Out the Bush Regime has called for nationwide protests and student walkouts on Nov. 2, the first anniversary of Bush's "re-election." At last count people in 67 cities, at 43 colleges and universities, and 90 high schools (at last count) will leave work and school and gather in the city centers to declare No! This Regime Does Not Represent Us! and to launch a movement to drive Bush from power. (www.worldcantwait.org). San Francisco convergence point is Civic ...
Posted: Mon, Oct 31, 2005 8:49am PST
11/17: National "Not Your Soldier" Youth and Student Day of Action On November 17, International Students Day, join youth and students from around the country in the first nationally coordinated day of action for and about young people! NOT YOUR SOLDIER!...
Posted: Sun, Oct 30, 2005 9:31pm PST
QUEBEC: Cops and Students Battle At National Assembly (w/ pics) 
Cops and Students Battle at Quebec National Assembly...
Posted: Fri, Oct 28, 2005 9:40am PDT
US colleges and universities increase tuition again On October 18, the College Board released its two annual reports on the rising expense of higher education in the US. Trends in Student Aid is based on data from the 2004-2005 academic year, while Trends in College Pricing includes data from this year. Both reports reveal that the cost of postsecondary education in the US continues to outstrip inflation and lower-income students are being shut out of universities as a result....
Posted: Thu, Oct 27, 2005 7:36am PDT
Join California Safe Schools & Promote Health & Safety www.calisafe.org...
Posted: Fri, Oct 21, 2005 8:00pm PDT
New Orleans: school staff face massive cuts in jobs, benefits The New Orleans Public School (NOPS) board is moving to break up the city’s public school system and force though massive cuts to the jobs, pay and benefits of its workforce in the wake of Hurricane Katrina....
Posted: Wed, Oct 19, 2005 7:00am PDT
Union and NDP leaders conspire to close down British Columbia teachers strike Hundreds of thousands of workers in British Columbia are poised to join walkouts in the coming days in support of the province’s 40,000 public school teachers and the challenge that they are mounting to a battery of antiunion laws and the BC Liberal government’s agenda of slashing public and social services....
Posted: Wed, Oct 19, 2005 6:58am PDT
CSULB Students Ripped off by Marketing Company 
"Brailsford & Dunlavey is not a polling company, interested in providing an unbiased sampling. They are a facility planning company that profits from providing “market and financial analyses, architectural programming, business planning, referendum management, and other pre-implementation services” for moving the construction process to fruition. On their website, www.facilityplanners.com, Brailsford & Dunlavey states, “B&D equips clients with the data and tools needed to navigate confid...
Posted: Tue, Oct 11, 2005 2:08pm PDT
Has the Government Abandoned New Orleans' Top Black Colleges? Two historically black colleges in New Orleans remain closed after Hurricane Katrina's devastation. Reopening the colleges requires money, which may prove a challenge. We speak with the President of Xavier University about this....
Posted: Wed, Sep 28, 2005 6:39am PDT
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