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Fighting Deportation in North Carolina

6 Reasons Why Students Didn’t Graduate This Year—and What They’re Doing About It 6 Reasons Why Students Didn’t Graduate This Year—and What They’re Doing About It

The end of school is a cause for celebration. It’s also a reminder of discrimination and violence.

Jun 20, 2016 / StudentNation / Shiba Bandeeba, Clarissa Brooks, Michael Davis, Naseem Gibson, Darrell Moore, Axel Herrera Ramos, and Luke Risher

Corinthian Colleges

The Victims of For-Profit Education Are Creating a Debtors’ Movement The Victims of For-Profit Education Are Creating a Debtors’ Movement

The entire for-profit education model is predatory and financially unstable, and exploits students’ dreams of a college education.

Jun 19, 2016 / StudentNation / Michelle Chen

Growing Up With Climate Change Growing Up With Climate Change

My generation will be the first to have lived an entire lifetime in a climate changed world. We witnessed the first climate impacts. We will experience the worst. We were born into…

Jun 15, 2016 / StudentNation / Chloe Maxmin

Is Removing Climate Skepticism From Textbooks Censorship?

Is Removing Climate Skepticism From Textbooks Censorship? Is Removing Climate Skepticism From Textbooks Censorship?

The public-school board in Portland, Oregon, tried to broaden the district’s climate-change curriculum. Now it’s being accused of suppressing debate.

Jun 14, 2016 / StudentNation / Zoë Carpenter

University Hall, Northwestern University

Some Adjunct Professors Earn Just $20,000 a Year Some Adjunct Professors Earn Just $20,000 a Year

An organizing campaign at Northwestern University aims to change that.

Jun 13, 2016 / StudentNation / Michelle Chen

Pulling Reservation Schools Back From the Brink

Pulling Reservation Schools Back From the Brink Pulling Reservation Schools Back From the Brink

A program to improve American Indian high schools in Montana shows promise, but is it enough?

Jun 3, 2016 / StudentNation / Lillian Mongeau

NYC Teacher in Class

If Students’ Learning Conditions Are Teachers’ Working Conditions, These Students Are in Trouble If Students’ Learning Conditions Are Teachers’ Working Conditions, These Students Are in Trouble

New York City’s public schools are falling behind.

May 23, 2016 / StudentNation / Michelle Chen

Pre-K Teacher and Students

Without More Even Investment, Universal Pre-K Won’t Be Universal Without More Even Investment, Universal Pre-K Won’t Be Universal

When pre-K teachers at community centers typically make $27,000 less than public elementary-school teachers, how can we expect quality early-childhood education?

May 20, 2016 / StudentNation / Michelle Chen

The Future of Fossil-Fuel Divestment

The Future of Fossil-Fuel Divestment The Future of Fossil-Fuel Divestment

It’s an age-old tension between radicalism and reform made more urgent by the existential threat of climate change.

May 18, 2016 / StudentNation / Chloe Maxmin

Protest Fossil Fuel

Are Universities Actively Thwarting Efforts to Combat Climate Change? Are Universities Actively Thwarting Efforts to Combat Climate Change?

Just as the world is starting to come to its senses about climate change, universities are strangely obstructing progress.

May 12, 2016 / StudentNation / Benjamin Franta

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