Sunday Reading

...and the Afropolitan Debate Jacob Remes: Photographing a family torn apart by the tsunami Has Japan Learned Anything from the 2011 Disaster? Fukushima evacuees in their own words, five years...

Sunday Reading

...merge in Bitcoin. The quiet desperation of the TaskRabbit. ReclaimUC : Your education is not more important than any other struggle Zombie MOOCs Teaching while black and blue The eliminative...

Sunday Reading

...my sitting" ReclaimUC: On the ongoing failure of the UC administration to confront racism on campus Public universities as tax shelters Revolutionary study against and beyond the university The lessons...

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...the Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions Highlights from the AAA Israel-Palestine Task Force’s Final Report ReclaimUC: UC Davis spent at least $175,000 to scrub pepper-spray references from Internet The University...

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...in California's Punjabi-Mexican community On digital detox, and pathologizing connection RIP William Weaver, translator of Umberto Eco ReclaimUC: Open letter to the UC Berkeley community about the intimidation of grad...

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...Student Loans Immoral? ReclaimUC UC/CSU: Time for a fundamental rethinking of the role of the UC administration. Pepper-sprayed students from UC Davis win settlement worth $1 million with the UC...

Sunday Reading

...Old Delhi The history and social impact of refrigeration ReclaimUC: Some rules for teachers How one of America's last free colleges screwed its students and betrayed its legacy Myths about...

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...You” The purity of drones Google Writes Poetry on Subjects that People are Truly Interested In Smoke Screen and Smoke Signals Mapping Drone Strikes in Pakistan ReclaimUC Follow the money,...

Not for Teacher

...school represented just another space where they were criminalized for their style and culture. The school … was indistinguishable from the police officer stationed at McDonald’s, the adults in the...

School's Out Forever

...others.” Classrooms, tellingly, are usually depicted in popular culture as excruciatingly boring. Teachers post Calvin and Hobbes cartoons about the soul-crushing banality of compulsory attendance on the classroom walls. In...

Trophy Season

...for J to teach me, because it's a perfectly natural thing to see a person who's punching people and assume that person is kind of a jerk. As a teacher...