What International Education Rankings Don’t Measure What International Education Rankings Don’t Measure
PISA’s reductive test score dumps prevent nuanced debate.
Dec 5, 2013 / StudentNation / Owen Davis and StudentNation
Drones, Defense and Diplomas Drones, Defense and Diplomas
University leaders and government officials are collaborating on drone research, provoking troubling questions about privacy, academic independence and economic profit.
Dec 4, 2013 / StudentNation / StudentNation and Max Ocean
Students Mobilize Against Wendy’s for Farmworkers’ Rights Students Mobilize Against Wendy’s for Farmworkers’ Rights
Every fast-food corporation that sources its tomatoes from Florida’s farms has signed onto the Fair Food Program except for Wendy’s.
Nov 25, 2013 / StudentNation / Aaron Miguel Cantú and StudentNation
This Week, Students Shut Down ICE, UC and Operation Rescue This Week, Students Shut Down ICE, UC and Operation Rescue
From Chicago to Albuquerque, the fight for racial and reproductive justice rages on.
Nov 22, 2013 / StudentNation / StudentNation
Interns’ Favorite Articles of the Week, 11/22/13 Interns’ Favorite Articles of the Week, 11/22/13
This week: cruel conditions at immigrant detention centers, the Radical Hospitality movement and a profile of the last Jew in Afghanistan.
Nov 22, 2013 / StudentNation / StudentNation
How Do We Stop Anti-LGBTQ Bullying? How Do We Stop Anti-LGBTQ Bullying?
Message of support to LGBTQ youth are a beautiful sign of solidarity, but alone they are inadequate to deal with the depth and scale of the crisis at hand.
Nov 20, 2013 / StudentNation / Keegan O’Brien and StudentNation
‘Unmanned’ Offers a Chance to Debate Drones ‘Unmanned’ Offers a Chance to Debate Drones
New doc offers a clear-cut case that drones are not making us safer, and the filmmakers are offering free copies of the documentary to any students who want to stage screenings on ...
Nov 19, 2013 / StudentNation / Timothy Molina and StudentNation
Brower Youth Award Winner Outlines New Responses to Climate Change Brower Youth Award Winner Outlines New Responses to Climate Change
The climate movement often seems like it’s fighting “against something”--against indifference and political gridlock. But this is a struggle “for everything...
Nov 18, 2013 / StudentNation / Chloe Maxmin and StudentNation
Inside the Bulgarian Student Occupation Inside the Bulgarian Student Occupation
Fighting for their future in a poor country where corruption has marred development since the fall of the Soviet Union, students at Bulgaria's Sofia University have taken hold ...
Nov 15, 2013 / StudentNation / Max Rivlin-Nadler and StudentNation
Interns’ Favorite Articles of the Week, 11/15/13 Interns’ Favorite Articles of the Week, 11/15/13
This week: the media obsesses over female orgasms, states take action on minimum-wage laws and Syrian refugees in Bulgaria face death threats.
Nov 15, 2013 / StudentNation / StudentNation