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Jesse Hagopian

Jesse Hagopian

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Regulating AI Isn’t Enough. Let’s Dismantle the Logic That Put It in Schools.

AI in schools isn’t progress — it’s a sign of how far we’ve strayed from the purpose of education.

06.07.2025 40

Truthout

Jesse Hagopian

Teachers and Students Are Rising Up to Defend Anti-Racist Education in the US

An intergenerational movement is defending knowledge that challenges the status quo — on campus and in the streets.

07.06.2025 2

Truthout

Jesse Hagopian

Elites Want to Turn Schools Into Factories of Hopelessness. We Can’t Let Them.

“End times schooling” risks turning schools into graveyards for hope — but they can also be greenhouses for resistance.

26.05.2025 7

Truthout

Jesse Hagopian

Why the History of the Wilmington Coup Can Help Make Sense of Our American Present

18.04.2025 3

Common Dreams

Jesse Hagopian

Trump’s Education by Indoctrination Must Be Fought With Social Justice Unionism

Trump is advancing fascism not just through violence, but through control over knowledge.

14.04.2025 9

Truthout

Jesse Hagopian

Trump’s Goal of Burying History Won’t Work If Teachers Refuse to Stop Teaching

Trump wants education to become indoctrination, and the Democratic Party isn't fighting back. But we can.

11.02.2025 10

Truthout

Jesse Hagopian

Trump’s Education Agenda for Teachers: Sanitize US History or Leave the Field

Teachers fear Trump may use federal funding as a bludgeon to push “uncritical race theory” on K-12 schools and colleges.

24.01.2025 4

Truthout

Jesse Hagopian

The Far Right’s Plan to Force Teachers to Lie About Race

15.01.2025 7

The Nation

Jesse Hagopian

Teachers Turn to Study Groups for Anti-Racist Learning as History Is Whitewashed

It is hard to overstate the burdens public school educators have been asked to carry over the last several years. There are the perennial...

30.12.2024 2

Truthout

Jesse Hagopian

Seattle Planned to Close Up to 21 Public Schools — Here’s How We Stopped Them

From coast to coast, school districts are proposing closures, as pandemic-era funds have long since dried up and gentrification has driven families...

17.12.2024 7

Truthout

Jesse Hagopian

Eric Adams Allegedly Took Bribes to Erase the Genocide That Killed My Ancestors

New York City Mayor Eric Adams is facing a sweeping indictment on federal corruption charges accusing him of taking bribes, committing fraud and...

04.10.2024 4

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Jesse Hagopian

The Right’s Raid on Libraries Is So Extreme, Even the Dictionary Is Under Fire

It may have started off as an ordinary fall school day at a high school in the Wentzville School District of Missouri in 2022, but when a police...

26.09.2024 2

Truthout

Jesse Hagopian