Agriculture is in full focus this year with people gaining awareness about how their foods are cultivated. As people across the country found themselves spending more time at home, home and community-based gardening started to rise (MLive). This trend is not limited to adults. It also includes the education provided for students. Agricultural education is a powerful component of racial equity that should be promoted for students across the country.
The Cops Off Campus Coalition is a network of students, educators, and community members working to abolish policing in the education system.
As degrees become a requirement in the U.S. workforce, student loan debt becomes an unavoidable threat to financial freedom.
While some Islamophobic attacks get media attention, everyday bigotry is normalized in many spaces, including schools.
Unpaid internships are inaccessible and further the economic inequities in education and the workplace by relying on exploitative practices.
The expiration of a federal program that guarantees students access to free school meals has devasting effects on food-insecure children.
We surveyed educators to learn how the critical race discourse is affecting their classrooms – and how you can help.
Teachers are fundraising to get air conditioning into their classrooms due to record heat waves and inadequate educational infrastructure.
Last Monday, the Supreme Court made a decision that could significantly impact the lives of student-athletes. The Court ruled against the National College Athletic Association to allow student-athletes to receive education-related payments of up to $6,000 a year and unlimited non-cash education-related benefits (CNN). College sports bring in billions of dollars of revenue each year. The 2019 March Madness tournament was estimated to have brought $1.18 billion in advertising revenue for CBS and Turner Sports, with networks paying about $800 million for the rights (CNBC). Given the profitability of college athletics, it would be expected that athletes receive fair compensation for the labor that they perform.
A recent decision at Harvard sets a new standard for investing in fossil fuels.
