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A high school play about the Iraq war, “Voices in Conflict,” was abruptly cancelled by the school administration in Wilton, Connecticut last month when a student whose brother was serving in Iraq circulated drafts of the play to parents and others in the community in order to get it shut down. After having supported the project of the advanced drama class for almost two months, the school’s principal, Timothy Canty, deemed the play “unbalanced” and potentially inflammatory for its presentatio...

Israeli students are mounting a nationwide strike from Tuesday against tuition hikes and budget cuts, in a protest riddled with contradictions....

I was surprised to see my child’s school district in the Argus Newspaper in a column by Lynh Tat Several stories about New Haven Unified Schoo District...

On March 20, police assaulted a group of people seeking to prevent the arrest of an undocumented Chinese immigrant who had come to collect his grandsons from the Rampal infant school in the Belleville district of Paris. The police attack has provoked a wave of revulsion amongst teachers, parents and the working class population in the community and throughout France....

In 1971, after I returned from Peace Corps Kenya, I taught English as a Second Language to Chinatown adult immigrants. After working all day, my students started studying at 6 p.m., and after class walked or took the bus home. Today Chinatown residents and workers continue to rely on City College classes during the evening, afternoon and morning, seven days a week, to learn English, prepare for citizenship, and acquire job skills....

Teachers of the California State University system -- the most affordable higher education institution in the state -- vowed to strike if the CSU administration did not offer an acceptable contract. Central to the California Faculty Association's objections are the university system's proposal to drastically increase student tuition by more than 200% over the next couple of years, and a substandard salary schedule that leaves many teachers struggling to survive on less than most k-12 teacher...

"Young persons born after 1982 are the most narcissistic generation of recent history and far removed from a social orientation.. Narcissism is a business or income in the attention econmy....

Early last week, the Community Advisory Committee on Student Enrollment Recruitment and Retention (CACSERR) unveiled to the Board of Education (BOE) the informative and inspiring findings of six months worth of community discussions. Coming in the midst of tense negotiations over the nature of City contributions to the school district, the report and presentation were welcome reminders of what we’re working for and how we really want to be going about that work....

Officials at Brigham Young University in Utah have received emails raising concerns on the University's invitation for Dick Cheney to speak at commencement. Known around D.C. circles as the real Power behind the White House Occupier, Dickie C is best known in Public as the man who shot his pal last year in a hunting trip, and then refused a sobriety test afterwards......

A majority of high skilled workers who will fill the labor shortages California will face in the near future will come from community colleges. But if the state doesn't begin pay closer attention to this valuable institution, students and California's labor market are in for a shock, says Rubén Lizardo, Director of California Tomorrow’s Community College Access & Equity Initiative....