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Virtual Wolf / Flickr How Students Protested Dining-Hall Food in an Honor Culture
In the Great Biscuit Rebellion of 1852, University of South Carolina students threatened to leave if their demands weren’t met––and the trustees let them go.
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Tony Dejak / AP The Value of the Oberlin Food Protests
Dining-hall food might not be the most pressing injustice in the world—but students need space to experiment with activism.
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Charlie Neibergall / AP What Happened to the Common Core Debate?
Several Republican presidential candidates have backed away from the term, but not the standards. Why?
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Charles Rex Arbogast / AP The Professor Suspended for Saying Muslims and Christians Worship One God
It was her theology—not her hijab—that got her in trouble with the evangelical college.
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Darren Ornitz / Reuters Does Affirmative Action Create Mismatches Between Students and Universities?
The debate over ‘mismatch theory’ is needlessly polarized—and further research will help students, whatever the answers it generates.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP Is Affirmative Action Finished?
For the second time, the justices of the Supreme Court are struggling with Fisher v. University of Texas—and the divisive questions it raises.
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Rick Wilking / Reuters The Lessons of Bygone Free-Speech Fights
Efforts to police offensive language have seldom achieved their goals, and often been turned against the groups they were intended to protect.
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Andrew Harnik / AP ‘No Child Left Behind’ Is No More
The Senate’s final approval of the Every Student Succeeds Act launches a new era in education policy and ushers Arne Duncan out of office.
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James G. Milles / Flickr When One Student's Art Is Another's Aggression
A black student posted “White Only” signs on water fountains to highlight systemic racism—and provoked an uproar.
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Danny Fowler / Flickr How Talking to Undergraduates Changed My Mind
What I learned from attending a town-hall meeting and listening to students’ concerns
