On January 19, 2024, teachers went on strike in the Boston suburb of Newton, Massachusetts. Before their union came to the decision to strike—with 98 percent of members voting in favor—it spent 10 months negotiating new contracts with the city to...
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On January 19, 2024, teachers went on strike in the Boston suburb of Newton, Massachusetts. Before their union came to the decision to strike—with 98 percent of members voting in favor—it spent 10 months negotiating new contracts with the city to...
With 211 days of full school closure between March 2020 and February 2021, Panamanian schools have had a longer break from classroom learning in the Covid-19 pandemic than any other nation in the world. Even worse, a UNICEF survey conducted in Novemb...
With 211 days of full school closure between March 2020 and February 2021, Panamanian schools have had a longer break from classroom learning in the Covid-19 pandemic than any other nation in the world. Even worse, a UNICEF survey conducted in Novemb...
There’s no denying that the US education system is trigger-happy when it comes to passing out suspensions. According to some reports, 1 in 3 students in America are suspended at some point between kindergarten and 12th grade. In 2011, enough stude...
There’s no denying that the US education system is trigger-happy when it comes to passing out suspensions. According to some reports, 1 in 3 students in America are suspended at some point between kindergarten and 12th grade. In 2011, enough stude...
The week before the US presidential election, then-Democratic Vice Presidential Candidate Tim Kaine made history by delivering the first presidential campaign speech conducted entirely in Spanish. “No hablo español perfectamente,” he began, adop...
The week before the US presidential election, then-Democratic Vice Presidential Candidate Tim Kaine made history by delivering the first presidential campaign speech conducted entirely in Spanish. “No hablo español perfectamente,” he began, adop...
The events playing out across Brazilian public high schools could very well have been penned by William Golding, but they are far from fiction. Thousands of students have taken over their schools and set up camp in the classrooms where, were it norma...
The events playing out across Brazilian public high schools could very well have been penned by William Golding, but they are far from fiction. Thousands of students have taken over their schools and set up camp in the classrooms where, were it norma...
While the proposition to legalize marijuana has taken up the most oxygen of Massachusetts’ ballot initiatives, another issue is just as consequential: charter schools. Question 2, if approved, would expand existing charter schools and/or authorize ...
While the proposition to legalize marijuana has taken up the most oxygen of Massachusetts’ ballot initiatives, another issue is just as consequential: charter schools. Question 2, if approved, would expand existing charter schools and/or authorize ...
Though more than 60 years have passed since the Supreme Court decided Brown v. Board of Education, many school districts are still effectively segregated by race and ethnicity. They are not explicitly segregated by law; the Brown case found legally s...
Though more than 60 years have passed since the Supreme Court decided Brown v. Board of Education, many school districts are still effectively segregated by race and ethnicity. They are not explicitly segregated by law; the Brown case found legally s...
Amid the search for John Boehner’s replacement as Speaker of the House and the ever-mounting frenzy of the 2016 presidential election, it can be easy for the public to overlook other important items on the Congressional agenda. One of the more pres...
Amid the search for John Boehner’s replacement as Speaker of the House and the ever-mounting frenzy of the 2016 presidential election, it can be easy for the public to overlook other important items on the Congressional agenda. One of the more pres...
A family weekend at Disneyland costs less than getting your children vaccinated — unless, of course, they come down with the measles. Today, it takes $2,192 to fully vaccinate a child, but 30 years ago, it cost the same amount as a ticket to Disney...
A family weekend at Disneyland costs less than getting your children vaccinated — unless, of course, they come down with the measles. Today, it takes $2,192 to fully vaccinate a child, but 30 years ago, it cost the same amount as a ticket to Disney...
Aaron Regunberg ’12, a community organizer in Providence, talks to Brown Political Review’s Omar Ben Halim. Regunberg is the Executive Director of Hope United, a student-led organization at Hope High School aimed at organizing social progr...
Aaron Regunberg ’12, a community organizer in Providence, talks to Brown Political Review’s Omar Ben Halim. Regunberg is the Executive Director of Hope United, a student-led organization at Hope High School aimed at organizing social progr...
Sexual education in America is far from perfect. It varies widely from state to state (and even school to school), but at worst it can shame rape victims, spread misinformation, and exclude everyone who isn’t cisgender and heterosexual. Given t...
Sexual education in America is far from perfect. It varies widely from state to state (and even school to school), but at worst it can shame rape victims, spread misinformation, and exclude everyone who isn’t cisgender and heterosexual. Given t...
In the past year, we’ve heard President Obama and Governor Romney talk about everything from Libya to the London Olympics. However, public education has been noticeably absent from our nation’s discourse. A topic that has been included in nationa...
In the past year, we’ve heard President Obama and Governor Romney talk about everything from Libya to the London Olympics. However, public education has been noticeably absent from our nation’s discourse. A topic that has been included in nationa...