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Eleanor J. Bader

Eleanor J. Bader

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School Vouchers Have a Racist History and Troubling Impacts on Public Schools

The voucher system came out of racist parents’ rejection of integrated schools in the ‘50s. It’s still hurting students.

21.10.2024 10

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Teachers and Students Are Facing a Mental Health Crisis as School Year Begins

A new study says 48 percent of K-12 educators feel their decline in mental health has impacted their ability to teach.

25.09.2024 5

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Project 2025 Isn’t Just Anti-Abortion. It Attacks Surrogacy, IVF, Contraception.

Early childhood educator Sammi Gerken, a married mother of a 3-year-old, became a surrogate in late 2022 and calls the experience “rewarding on all...

27.07.2024 10

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Israel Faces No Apparent Red Line, But Pro-Palestinian Media Workers Do

British cartoonist Steve Bell estimates that he has drawn more than 13,000 comic strips, illustrations and cartoons since the early 1980s, most of...

14.07.2024 20

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Christian Nationalists Accelerate Their Plan to Dismantle Public Education

When Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz attended the 2023 Turning Point USA convention, he gave the Christian nationalists in attendance a preview of the...

30.06.2024 4

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Schools Are Divesting From Arts Education as COVID-Era Federal Funds Evaporate

When Oren Alperin was ready to apply to high school, they knew they wanted to study theater. Now a junior at the competitive Brooklyn High School of...

15.06.2024 5

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From New York to LA, Housing Insecurity Is Undermining Immigrant Students

When New York City Mayor Eric Adams issued a notice to asylum-seeking families in January informing them that they would be evicted from temporary...

24.05.2024 30

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Proposed HUD Rules Would Protect Convicted Tenants From Public Housing Eviction

For decades, tenants with criminal records have been restricted from accessing public housing. This may soon change.

18.05.2024 30

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SCOTUS Ignores Housing Crisis in Hearing on Laws Criminalizing Unhoused People

Grants Pass, Oregon, population 39,000, has passed three ordinances since 2017 to prohibit “sleeping on public sidewalks, streets, or alleyways,”...

25.04.2024 7

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We Can’t Trade a Path to Legalization in Exchange for More Border Militarization

Silky Shah, executive director of the Detention Watch Network, a 27-year-old, national coalition working to abolish the incarceration of immigrants in...

23.04.2024 30

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Inclusive Education Is Under Attack — But These Teachers Aren’t Backing Down

Shortly after the San Francisco Chronicle published an op-ed that denounced an educational program called Woke Kindergarten, the right-wing echo...

12.04.2024 10

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Teachers Are Fighting Book Bans and Unjust Firings in Courts and State Houses

Kasey Meehan, director of the Freedom to Read program at PEN America, likens the ongoing fight against legislation intended to restrict what teachers...

03.04.2024 3

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Republicans Aren’t Done Threatening the Hungry With Planned Cuts to Food Aid

As the fiscal 2024 budget battle unfolded, congressional Republicans made their position clear — they wanted spending on anti-poverty efforts to be...

12.03.2024 10

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Florida Officials Cut Sociology as Core College Class in War on Critical Thought

When Afshan Jafar arrived at Ohio Wesleyan University as an undergraduate in 1995, she enthusiastically enrolled in a variety of classes, including...

28.02.2024 10

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“Back to Normal” Pandemic Policies Are Harming Those Most in Need of Protection

When epidemiologist and parent Rebecca Fielding-Miller heard that California was going to allow asymptomatic, COVID-19-positive students to attend...

14.02.2024 3

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Right-Wing Members of Congress Push Anti-Abortion Measure on College Campuses

On the face of it, House Bill 6914, passed just days before the annual anti-abortion “March for Life” in late January, sounds benign. Its...

01.02.2024 7

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Advocates Are Fighting NYC’s Eviction of Asylum Seekers From City-Funded Housing

When William Russo learned that some of the newly arrived asylum seekers being housed in tents on the grounds of Floyd Bennet Field, a former military...

14.01.2024 10

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18 Months After “Dobbs,” Here’s How Abortion Providers and Activists See Things

After the Supreme Court’s June 2022 Dobbs decision eviscerated the already limited federal right to abortion, 14 states — Alabama, Arkansas,...

28.12.2023 20

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The Right Is Passing Bills That Ban the Teaching of Empathy and Care in Schools

Between 2021 and early 2023, at least 25 states saw bills introduced into their legislatures to remove social and emotional learning (SEL) from public...

17.12.2023 8

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So-Called “Child Welfare” Tears Families Apart. How Can We Repair This Harm?

When Yusef Presley was 5, he was removed from his family home and separated from his mom and 8-year-old sister due to allegations of maternal abuse....

07.12.2023 10

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Medicare Advantage Plans Disadvantage Many Elderly and Disabled People

When retired veterinarian Richard Timmins went on a Medicare Advantage plan in 2016, he admits that he knew very little about Traditional Medicare...

04.12.2023 7

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