July 7, 2016
The nation’s largest professional employee organization and largest teacher union, the National Education Association (NEA), has adopted an official policy position on school discipline and the school-to-prison pipeline.
May 3, 2016
—Henry Jenkins
Forget what you’ve heard about youth being ignorant and apathetic about American politics. Young people are tapping into a broad range of different platforms and practices, seeking change “by any media necessary.”
October 30, 2015
—Rani Neutill About a year ago I was asked to teach a class about the evolution of the representation of sex throughout American Cinema. I started with the silent film… READ MORE
September 30, 2015
—Philip Nel Few things upset American adults more than books for children and adolescents. If you look at the American Library Association’s annual list of Challenged and Banned Books, the… READ MORE
June 11, 2015
—Ben Kirshner and Ricardo Martinez The Black Lives Matter movement has galvanized people throughout the US to speak up about systemic racism and the devastating impact of mass incarceration on… READ MORE
March 25, 2015
Sociologist Tom Shakespeare of the University of Norwich Medical School recently did a five-part series on “The Genius of Disability” for BBC Radio 3, with the first radio essay in the series… READ MORE
November 11, 2013
—Daria Roithmayr In a recent article in The Atlantic, Derek Thompson highlights what many of us already know—that the burden of recent unemployment falls harder on black and Latino workers… READ MORE
October 21, 2013
—Ruth Colker Blaming the mother is a long-standing cultural tradition in the United States. In the best-selling book, The Generation of Vipers, Philip Wylie invented the name “momism” in 1942… READ MORE