by Leo Gerard | Apr 16, 2019 | Blog, Education, Future of Work
“Steelworker” generally evokes images of hulking mill buildings, steel-toed boots, and molten metal – not ivory towers, doctoral dissertations, and university research. But 2,000 graduate students at the University of Pittsburgh are voting this week on whether to...
by Leo Gerard | Apr 15, 2019 | Blog, Education, Future of Work, Protest
Alison McIntosh learned early that life is a little easier with help from friends. Her first professional job reinforced that notion. And now, as a University of Pittsburgh graduate student, she is asking her co-workers to embrace collectivism. McIntosh, who is...
by Naomi Runder | Apr 12, 2019 | Blog, Education, Election, Featured, I Speak, Protest
My name is Naomi Runder. I’m an organizer with Iowa Student Action and a student at Grinnell College. I never expected to be a student in Iowa. For a while, I wasn’t even sure whether I could be a student anywhere. As I was preparing to graduate high school in...
by Jeff Bryant | Feb 9, 2017 | Blog, Education
Betsy DeVos may have won her contest in the Senate to become the new U.S. Secretary of Education, but her opposition wasn’t the only thing that went down to defeat that day. For decades, federal education policies have been governed by a“Washington consensus”...
by Julie Chinitz | Oct 25, 2016 | Education, Jobs and Growth
Fifteen dollars shouldn’t be too much to ask – or demand. In almost every state, a worker needs more than $15 an hour to make ends meet. Add in student debt, and the minimum living wage shoots up to $18.67 an hour nationally. A family with children needs significantly...
by Jeff Bryant | Oct 12, 2016 | Blog, Education
In an election year calling attention to multiple policy priorities, parents, educators, community organizers and progressive activists are increasingly frustrated that education seems to be a priority that is nowhere near the top, at least in the minds of current...
