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Education articles on Democracy Chronicles
It is clear that high rates of education are essential for countries to be able to achieve high levels of economic growth and to manage a modern democracy. Spreading quality education to everyone around the world is vital to progress.
Canada’s First Nations Education Plans to Reclaim Culture
Teaching their children native languages and exposing them to repressed aspects of their ancient culture are First Nations education priorities for alliance of Canada indigenous people
Anti-Immigration Murrieta Nasties Battle Besos, Not Borders
When anti-immigration Murrieta militants realized we were at the front of the capitol building, they strutted over to cause trouble. The baldie started to yell, shoving a bullhorn right into our faces; at the same time, he would roar, “don’t touch me; don’t touch me.” He was going berserk.
McAllen’s Sacred Heart Leads Efforts Helping Refugee Families
As adjunct activists, we need to remember our collective truth — our nakedness with all its biting candor yet its accurate honesty — and realize that on this earth, we are all in this together: adjunct, dreamer, undocumented — children & parents alike — workers, labor & all unions.
Politicians Clash on How to Teach History in Public School
How should we teach history in public school when so many different opinions exist, even locally?
Vote Scheduled For NY Adjuncts Forming Union
Part-time adjunct professors in New York and elsewhere are ready for change. By moving forward with a full push to unionize they are splitting themselves off from traditional teachers unions that they see as not doing enough for adjuncts.
Why Rich Russian Children Go to School Abroad
Quality education bought in democratic world by politically connected super rich Russian children is benefit few inside country can match
The Ideal American Society
In this essay the author discusses 6 divergent political and religious groups and the world. What is now happening is the working class is increasingly getting a smaller share of the pie, the middle class is disappearing, and the rich keep getting richer.
A Matter of Rights: The Deeper Implications of Harris v. Quinn
Harris v. Quinn is deeply troubling. While the case concerned workers and unions, the potentially negative decision could leave our most vulnerable citizens without the full protection of the federally mandated Medicaid program; that is the problem nobody seems to be talking about.
How 1964 Civil Rights Act Changed NASA
President Johnson signing the Civil Rights Act changed NASA science research for the better