Trump’s threat to revoke universities’ accreditation meets a political and legal dead end.
Trump and Education
Posted inEducation in America
The Republican Plot to Destroy Education Research
Education of any kind is now a partisan issue. The Trump administration is refusing to publicize data that bear on the needs of marginalized people because American conservatives are now dead set against the very idea of public education of any kind.
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University Unions Stand Up to Trump’s Research Cuts While Administrators Waver
While some universities have capitulated to Trump’s NIH cuts, there are faculty and graduate student union leaders on the frontlines pushing back.
Posted inPolitics
Trump Kills Youth Jobs
President Lyndon B. Johnson created the Job Corps sixty years ago. Trump wants to cut off funding for this vital workforce development program.
Posted inPodcasts
Why Racism Has No Place in the Academy
Two professors explain how tolerance of bigotry at colleges and universities undermines democracy and quality scholarship.
Posted inCoronavirus
Unsanitized: Why Florida Teachers Are Suing the Governor
Also, the worst coronavirus relief idea yet. This is The COVID-19 Daily Report for July 21, 2020.
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Preserving Civil Discourse on College Campuses
Vassar College President Elizabeth Bradley examines how our vicious political climate has affected freedom of speech on college campuses and beyond.
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A Case in the Supreme Court Could Upend Public Education
The justices consider whether barring subsidies to religious schools is a type of illegal discrimination.
Posted inEducation in America
Supreme Court Case Could Mandate Funding for Religious Schools
Right-wing legal institutes see an opportunity to undermine public education.
Posted inTAP
The Education Department’s Rip-Off Schemes Radicalize Its Own Staff
Today on TAP: Betsy DeVos’s mismanagement backfires