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Coultergate and the Truth About Campus Speech

David Faris | (Informed Comment) | - - The cancellation of human outrage machine Ann Coulter’s speech at the University of California-Berkeley has generated yet another round of pearl-clutching and hand-wringing about…

AG Jeff Sessions implies Asian-Americans in Hawaii not Real Americans

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Attorney-General Jeff Sessions was caught on tape saying the following: "“We are confident that the President will prevail on appeal and particularly in…

Give us your Huddled Scientists: France woos US Climate Researchers, Inventors in age of Trump

By Frédéric Simon | EurActiv.com | - - The United States of America. Home of the free. Land of the brave. And, until Donald Trump became president, a beacon of science, research…

Would US have more security if it spent on Global Ed instead of on War industries?

By Jeffrey D. Sachs | (Project Syndicate) | - - NEW YORK – The United States needs to shift its spending from war to education, from CIA-backed regime change to a new…

Purge of teachers and academics bulldozes through Turkish education

By Moritz Pieper | (The Conversation) | - - As news of the attempted military coup in Turkey unfolded, I was in Pennsylvania. Travelling in the US, I had coincidentally found myself…

Trump University Was Textbook case of Fraud (TYT)

Cenk Uygur | (The Young Turks Video) | - - "Donald Trump is in a lot of trouble since a judge unsealed the documents of the Trump University case. This has the…

Student Protest, Black Lives Matter, & the Corporate University

By Aviva Chomsky | (Tomdispatch.com) | - - During the past academic year, an upsurge of student activism, a movement of millennials, has swept campuses across the country and attracted the attention…

Caravan Schools and educating Syrian Refugee Children

By Samantha Schmidt | ( Yes | - - In response to overcrowded public schools in countries neighboring Syria, caravan schools provide refugees with free education to keep them from falling behind.…

Anti-Muslim Bigotry @ Idaho State to cost Pocatello $400 mn./ yr

Jay Hidlebrandt, Karole Honas, Misty Inglet | - KIFI Local News 8 | - - "The Idaho U.S. Attorney Wendy Olson held a press conference in Pocatello Thursday to address the recent…

And the Best Teacher in the World is . . . a Palestinian

Ma'an News Agency | - - BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) -- A Palestinian teacher from the occupied West Bank on Sunday won the Varkey Foundation's 2016 Global Teacher's Prize "for her work educating children…

End of Research in Egypt? The murder of my friend Giulio Regeni is an attack on academic freedom

By Neil Pyper | (the Conversation) | The body of Giulio Regeni was discovered in a ditch in Cairo on February 2, showing evidence of torture, and a slow and horrific death.…

Rural Fury over Arabic Script in World Cultures Module forces closing of Augusta, Va. Schools

AJ+ | (Video news report) | - - "VA's Augusta County School District shut down over security concerns posed by parents who were angry about an Arabic calligraphy lesson. Officials didn't mention…

Pakistan’s New Weapon Against Taliban Is Education

AJ+ | (Video News Report) | - - "One year after 132 kids were killed in a school attack, Pakistan's army has found another way to fight the Taliban. " Pakistan's New…

400,000 Syrian Refugee Children Can’t Go To School In Turkey

AJ+ | (Video Report) | - - "Even though Syrian refugee children can legally go to school in Turkey, language barriers and economic struggles make it hard for them to actually attend."…

Education under occupation: everyday disruption at a Palestinian university

Brendan Browne | (The Conversation) | - - As the clock moves towards 12.45pm I begin to anxiously await the flurry of emails that I’ve come to expect in advance of my…

How the Israel Lobbies hurt U of Illinois-UC and damaged our 1st Amendment (Salaita Case)

How the Israel Lobbies hurt U of Illinois-UC & 1st Amendment (Salaita Case)

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - There is no honor among thieves or ideologues, and it is sad to see a great university's leadership descend into petty squabbling and…

Hillary v. Bernie on Student Debt: Whose Plan is more Progressive?

AJ+ | (Video report) | - - "Hillary Clinton announced on August 9 her New College Compact plan to tackle America's $1 trillion student debt problem. Clinton worked with education experts on…

Teaching tolerance: Five Israeli schools unite Jews and Palestinians

By: Anna Kokko | (Ma'an News Agency) | - - JAFFA (Ma'an) -- Paper lanterns crafted for Ramadan are hanging over the heads of children as they run between a snack table…

For Gaza Children, Returning to School reminder of Dead, Wounded Classmates

Fred Abrahams | (Human Rights Watch) | -- The fighting began one year ago and lasted for 51 days. In Gaza, Israeli attacks from land, air, and sea killed 551 children and…

“Books, Not Bullets,” Malala Yousafzai Urges at Oslo Summit

By Aruna Dutt | (Inter Press Service) | - - UNITED NATIONS (IPS) - Nobel Peace Prize laureate and education activist Malala Yousafzai spoke Tuesday of her mission to bring 12 years…