class and education

7 min read 2022-06-27 18:02:58

Hope and Concern: The WCSA’s 2022 Award Winners

Great plagues subvert our expectations about how things work, opening up new opportunities and widespread mobilization for social change. According

5 min read 2022-04-25 20:26:16

Joe Biden was right to propose free Pre-K education for 3- and 4-year-olds and free community college in his initial legislative package, rather than

4 min read 2022-02-21 20:00:13

Rutgers University AAUP Rally, April, 2021, photo by Eric Ruder Just over 20 years ago, Michael Zweig published The Working Class Majority:

5 min read 2022-01-31 20:19:19

In the final month of a horrible year of many tragedies and too many deaths, we lost bell hooks, a writer, scholar, and activist whose work has had a

3 min read 2022-01-24 20:06:07

At the beginning of 2021, I asked whether life for working-class people would get any better now that everyone understood that working-class people

4 min read 2020-11-30 21:44:07

It’s thirty years this autumn since I began my undergraduate degree at Durham University in the North East of England. To tell you the truth I

4 min read 2020-08-17 18:46:25

In August 2004, I entered a doctoral program at Carnegie Mellon University. My family is from Braddock, Pennsylvania, a largely black neighborhood

5 min read 2020-07-13 18:50:24

At the center of all the chaos and turmoil of 2020 has been the essential worker on the front lines—from healthcare workers treating those infected

5 min read 2020-06-29 18:55:34

We have two narratives about class in this country. Perhaps the most prominent is the American Dream – the idea that hard work and moral fortitude

5 min read 2020-03-23 19:24:49

Most American colleges and universities moved courses online over the last week. That shift highlights the class disparities of higher education. For

5 min read 2019-12-02 19:30:45

Thirty years ago, after having dropped out of college after just one term, unable to pay for my dorm room, I was unsure if I would ever leave the

4 min read 2019-09-09 18:23:40

Does the first amendment work the same for all Americans? What kind of freedoms do working people have to read, look at, and say what they want? The

5 min read 2019-07-22 18:25:27

Last week, a law professor from the UK was profiled by The Guardian. In the article, Geraldine Van Bueren, the daughter of a taxi driver and

4 min read 2019-06-17 17:31:20

Summer is already in full swing and with that comes the promise of fresh, local produce available at community-supported agricultural (CSA) farms and

4 min read 2019-04-15 18:07:39

Students protesting outside the courtroom, photo by Joseph Prezioso The actress Felicity Huffman—along with 13 other parents charged in the college