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I n January 2020, just weeks before the NBA shut down and Costco shelves emptied and Tom Hanks got sick, Joy Corbitt’s only brother died in his mid-forties with symptoms of Covid. Which meant, from the pandemic’s earliest days, Joy was taking no chances. She’d heard that Black and brown …

Under the current Trump administration, at both the state and federal level, far-right forces and wannabe dictators are smearing teachers, slashing public school funding, banning books, outlawing honest history, and expanding private school vouchers. American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten‘s upcoming book, Why Fascists Fear Teachers: Public Education and …

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. We all know that working as an educator can be a pretty thankless job at times, and the arrival of back-to-school season may mean spending some of your …

An investigation is underway in Oklahoma after a television screen in the MAGA state school superintendent’s office reportedly showed a video of nude women during an executive session of the State Board of Education on Thursday. The images reportedly appeared on a screen in the office of Ryan Walters, Oklahoma’s …

As one of the first Post-9/11 veterans, I faced a stark choice from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) when I transitioned from military service to civilian life. While attending college, I could opt for the older, less generous Chapter 32 of the post-Vietnam era veterans’ Montgomery G.I. Bill, …

Lupe Fiasco is headed to Johns Hopkins as a professor. On Wednesday, the rapper announced that he’ll be a visiting professor at Johns Hopkins University’s Peabody Institute this year. The rap star will teach a course for their four-year hip-hop program that starts in 2025. “Let’s hit the ground running …

“We don’t teach our children anything,” the spiritual influencer Mami Onami proclaims in a TikTok. “Anything that they learn is in response to either their interest or their questions.” She has near-translucent blue eyes and razor-sharp cheekbones, with tattoos snaking across her neck, arms, and taut abdominal muscles; one of …

Nine Louisiana families of different faithssued the state’s education department and local school boards on Monday over a new state law requiring the display of the Ten Commandments in every public classroom. “Indeed, for nearly half a century, it has been well settled that the First Amendment forbids public schools …

Republican Governor Jeff Landry, who appears hellbent on dismantling Louisiana‘s education system, signed a bill on Wednesday mandating that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every public school classroom in the state. The new legislation requires that a poster-sized display of the religious text be placed in all state-funded schools …

A Virginia school district voted on Friday to undo a 2020 decision that removed the names of three Confederate military officers from schools in the district. The Shenandoah County school board voted to rename Honey Run and Mountain View, two schools under their purview, Ashby-Lee Elementary and Stonewall Jackson High. …