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Education
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Cal State LA has a woman president for the first time — and she’s off to an eventful start
Berenecea Johnson Eanes has already experienced her first faculty strike as a leader in the nation’s largest university system.
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Even dictionaries aren’t safe from censorship in this Florida school district
Escambia County’s school district was already facing a lawsuit over banned books on LGBTQ+ subjects and race. Officials kept removing books anyway under a new Florida law.
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School program reduces trauma in Latina and Black girls but faces implementation hurdles
Working on Womanhood is an evidence-based mental health support for often-overlooked student groups. But challenges to scaling it and programs like it are numerous.
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Claudine Gay’s resignation at Harvard proves Black women’s leadership is still political
Analysis | Much of the criticism wasn’t about legitimate concerns about academic integrity or campus antisemitism. It was about who is in power.
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Education doesn’t solve the pay gap. Experts say they’re not surprised.
The gap exists across industries but is bigger in higher-paying fields, leading to more calls for policies that aid women in the workforce.
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Student loan repayments put a damper on holiday spending — especially for Gen Z and millennials
Borrowers who were already struggling to make ends meet before the pandemic payment pause ended in October are now holiday shopping on an ultra-tight budget.
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How a group of grandparents is mobilizing to push back against Moms for Liberty
Grandparents for Truth, a project of progressive advocacy group People for the American Way, is working to fight book bans, right-wing school boards and what it describes as authoritarianism in the nation’s schools.
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Activists in California school district turn in enough signatures to seek recall race against far-right president
Joseph Komrosky leads the Temecula, California, school board that’s faced national scrutiny for banning critical race theory, endorsing book banning and firing the woman superintendent.
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Students and advocates ‘frustrated’ with Biden administration’s slow response to finalize Title IX changes
House Democrats have urged the Department of Education to act on policy protections for LGBTQ+ students and student sexual assault survivors.