Kim Phillips-Fein The CUNY Experiment The City University of New York has long stood at once for meritocratic uplift and for civil disobedience. May 23, 2024
Hannah Appel Tenant, Debtor, Worker, Student In their historic strike, academic workers at the University of California took on one of the biggest employers, landlords, and financial actors in the state. February 8, 2023
Nesrine Malik interviews Hamza Syed ‘Neutrality Is Born Out of Laziness’ The co-host of the Serial podcast The Trojan Horse Affair talks about what being Muslim in Britain means today and how journalism can make entrenched Islamophobia visible. April 1, 2022
Anastasia Edel What the US Could Learn from the USSR Getting into a good school is a baffling process riddled with inequity. For all its abuses, one thing about the Soviet system I grew up in was its broad access to higher education. July 25, 2021
Sean Wilentz Senator Cotton’s Distortions on Slavery As far as a Union founded on the “necessary evil” of slavery is concerned, Senator Cotton appears unaware of how profoundly the Constitution of the United States of America differed from that of the Confederate States of America. August 3, 2020
Diane Ravitch How Trump Politicized Schools Reopening One of the most difficult issues of the pandemic is when and how schools should reopen. And the situation is made even more challenging because the Trump administration has politicized decision-making and even the CDC itself. July 30, 2020
Jim Shultz A Small Vote, a Giant Lesson With an army of conspiracy theorists eager to call fraud in the event that President Trump loses in November, we can’t afford to make the kind of needless mistakes that plagued our little election here along the banks of the Erie Canal. July 7, 2020
Amber Joseph What One Teacher Is Learning in a Pandemic New York City’s more than one million public school students have not now sat in a classroom since Friday, March 13. As a result, memories of some of my students’ faces, voices, and mannerisms remain frozen in my mind. April 19, 2020
E. Tammy Kim The Striking Demands of LA Teachers The United Teachers Los Angeles union’s demand for more school counselors, in particular, emerged more strongly than in other recent teacher strikes—because, striking teachers said, of the increasingly acute needs of the majority brown and working-class student population in LA’s public schools. January 23, 2019