When East Coast members of Higher Education Labor United (HELU) got together in January, they set their sights on developing a national plan to…
Homelessness among newborns, infants, and toddlers skyrocketed from 2022 to 2023, impacting 446,996 newborns, infants, and toddlers, according to a new report.…
Shortly after the Trump administration took office, the State Department warned international scholars and students ā people who had come to the…
When the right-wing Heritage Foundation released its Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promiseābetter known as Project 2025āin 2023, its authors laid out a comprehensive framework for…
Early childhood educator Sammi Gerken, a married mother of a 3-year-old, became a surrogate in late 2022 and calls the experience ārewarding…
After the Supreme Courtās June 2022Ā DobbsĀ decisionĀ eviscerated the already limited federal right to abortion,Ā 14 statesĀ ā Alabama, Arkansas, Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri,…
Between 2021 and early 2023,Ā at least 25 states saw bills introduced into their legislatures to remove social and emotional learningĀ (SEL) from public…
Kenneth Davis, an associate professor atĀ Edward Waters UniversityĀ (EWU) ā a private Christian and historically Black college in Jacksonville, Florida ā says he…
In September 2020, several months after the police murders of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd sparked protests across the country, then-President Donald Trump issued Executive Order 13950.…
āThe far right and MAGA adherents are stoking fear and diminishing our studentsā freedom to learn and our teachersā freedom to teach,ā…
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