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SOURCE: Iowa Starting Line
4/17/2022
Why Iowa Students are Walking Out in Protest
Restrictions on "divisive concepts" are among the legislative developments that make Iowa high school students fear their educations are being treated as a political football.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
2/7/2022
Adults Support Empowering Youth – Until Youth Dissent
by Dara Walker
American youth are seldom credited for having a clear understanding of the policies that affect their lives. COVID safety walkouts are the latest example of student activism to be dismissed.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
1/18/2022
Student Protests over COVID Policy (and Adults Ignoring Them) is Part of a Long Tradition
by Jack Hodgson
"Their message: Education needs to be delivered in cooperation with young people. They have a right to advocate for their own welfare, feel safe in school and receive teaching, not just supervision."
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SOURCE: EdNC
5/3/2021
“This Is Our Community” With Help From its Historic Black University, Elizabeth City Confronts the Tragedy it Tried to Prevent
Historian Melissa Stuckey of Elizabeth City State University in North Carolina has researched and taught about the town's history of racism and civil rights protest, knowledge that has been made tragically relevant by the police killing of Andrew Brown, Jr.
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SOURCE: Seattle Times
5/4/2020
50 Years Ago, ‘The Dude’ Didn’t Abide. He Helped Lead Thousands in Protest at UW After Students Shot at Kent State.
Before inspiring "The Dude," Jeff Dowd was a Seattle activist who led students to block Interstate 5 in Seattle to protest the war in Vietnam and the killing of students by the National Guard at Kent State.
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5/3/2020
50 Years After Kent State: Four Deaths Shocked a Nation and Thrust Me into Student Activism
by James Thornton Harris
An HNN Contributing Editor reflects on how the Kent State killings pushed him to student activism and the legacy of protest fifty years later.
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SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
3/26/2020
Reviving the Original Purpose of Pass-Fail
by Jonathan Zimmerman
We should use this moment to recapture some of the initial spirit of the option, argues Jonathan Zimmerman.
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SOURCE: Middle East Forum
4/9/19
Harvard's Communist Uprising, 50 Years Later
by Daniel Pipes
That takeover and bust culminated my political education.
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