Workers begin voting Friday at the Amazon warehouse in Staten Island, culminating an organizing drive by upstarts from their ranks.
Read more...For years, the U.S. and U.K. governments embraced the concept of nudges to change social behavior. Then came Covid-19.
Read more...Yves here. It might seem easy to dismiss the child-warehousing-masquerading-as-education perpetrated by Accel Schools as a charter school outlier. But as this article explains, Accel embodies a new trend to profit-maximization and asset stripping in this arena. By Jeff Bryant, a writing fellow and chief correspondent for Our Schools. He is a communications consultant, freelance […]
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Read more...The Supreme Court may rule to weaken oversight of Congressional redisctricting.
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Read more...A new “all hat, no cattle” gun trial plan shows how much Democrats want to look tought on crime without doing the heavy lifting to tackle it
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Read more...In “The Urge” by Carl Erik Fisher, a psychiatrist blends history and social critique with his own story of recovery.
Read more...How is bail reform working? A review of New York City’s program and that of some states.
Read more...A new corporate scheme: hijack vocational programs to meet narrow, immediate needs, leaving students with short shelf-life skills.
Read more...In Chicago, the formerly incarcerated are prepping locally sourced meals for schools, nursing homes and transitional housing facilities.
Read more...The young are again on the forefront of change, now by challenging neoliberal atomization and indoctrination by forming unions.
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