QUEBEC CITY — Quebec's premier Jean Charest said Thursday he suspended negotiations with university students aimed at ending weeks of protests o...
AP | JASON DEAREN | Posted 05.04.2012
SAN FRANCISCO — Administrators should consider deploying mediators instead of law enforcement at future campus demonstrations and better train s...
The Huffington Post | Tyler Kingkade | Posted 03.26.2012
College students across the country are gathering for rallies and marches demanding justice for Trayvon Martin. Martin was an unarmed 17-year-old w...
The Huffington Post | Tyler Kingkade | Posted 03.06.2012
Going to school at Harvard University is cheaper than attending a public university in California. According to the Bay Area News Group, a "family ...
The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 12.01.2011
After the Washington state government proposed in a special legislative session to cut education funding as a way to close a $2 billion budget gap, hu...
Louis Freedberg | Posted 01.23.2012
What sets this era of protest apart is that those in charge of higher education in California are themselves vehement critics of the budget cuts which students are now protesting.
AP | By CHRIS HAWLEY | Posted 11.17.2011
NEW YORK -- Barbara Handschu had tried to remove her name from the agreement that is her legacy. More than a quarter century ago, after New York's po...
AP | Posted 01.09.2012
LONDON — Amid a heavy police presence, thousands of students marched through central London on Wednesday to protest cuts to public spending and ...
The Santiago Times | Joe Hinchliffe | Posted 01.08.2012
Around 50 high school students occupied Santiago’s City Hall on Monday morning in a protest that ended with 44 arrests, after apparently being allow...
AP | By FEDERICO QUILODRAN | Posted 12.06.2011
SANTIAGO, Chile -- Chilean police used water cannons and tear gas to break up a student march for free public education on Thursday, hours after prote...
Jay Mandle | Posted 11.29.2011
Progressive and engaged students perpetually are faced with a dilemma. The logic of their commitments points to political participation, but entry into the system feels like a betrayal of their values.
John Hrabe | Posted 11.25.2011
Our natural reaction to contrasting views should always be to speak out ourselves, not shut our opponents up. Muslim students get the same First Amendment protections as Israeli ambassadors.
Gary Anderson | Posted 10.31.2011
Chilean students are experimenting with new forms of protest, such as marathon runs around congress, kiss-ins, and a 3,000-student performance of Michael Jackson's "Thriller" to imply that the education system in Chile has become a zombie.
HuffingtonPost.com | Will Guzzardi | Posted 07.26.2011
The principal at Austin Polytechnical Academy in a struggling West Side neighborhood of Chicago has rescinded the suspensions of 36 students who walke...
Chicago News Cooperative | Meribah Knight | Posted 07.20.2011
After discovering last week that nearly a quarter of their teachers were being dismissed, Austin Polytechnical Academy students decided to take extrem...
Posted 06.18.2011
More protests against school budget cuts and limitations on teachers' rights are taking place across the country -- except at these rallies, attendant...
The Huffington Post/AP | By AMY TAXIN | Posted 06.13.2011
Story by AP/Amy Taxin LONG BEACH, Calif. -- More than 10,000 people marched, waved signs and occupied buildings at college campuses across Californ...
Sheila K. Johnson | Posted 06.11.2011
In going through my husband's files, books, and papers after his death, I've been forcibly struck by how, contrary to what many of his obituaries said, his writings and thoughts were remarkably consistent throughout his life.
AP | Posted 06.02.2011
BLANTYRE, Malawi — Malawi officials have closed two university campuses indefinitely because of violent protests over what students and professo...
Posted 05.25.2011
UPDATE: All during Friday, Facebook groups and Twitter users have been urging students to rally in support of teachers and public education in Wiscons...
The Daily Californian | Posted 05.25.2011
While protest actions planned for March 2 at UC Berkeley were generally uneventful during the daytime as participation in the day's events proved sign...
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
ALGIERS, Algeria — About 500 students have rallied in Algeria's capital, part of the wave of unrest in Arab world to register discontent with na...
Posted 05.25.2011
**SCROLL FOR PHOTOS** Thousands of Italian students took to the streets Wednesday to protest higher education budget cuts, reports Deutsche Welle. ...
guardian.co.uk | Posted 05.25.2011
It's a very strange thing to watch a policeman take a truncheon to a book -- particularly when that book is giant-sized and being used as a shield. On...
Posted 05.25.2011
**SCROLL FOR PHOTOS** LONDON (AP) — Tens of thousands of students marched through London on Wednesday against plans to triple university tuitio...
AP | Posted 06.01.2012