“Schools are segregated because white people want them that way. … We won’t fix this problem until we really wrestle with that fact.” That’s what Nikole Hannah-Jones, New York Times Magazine writer and recipient of a prestigious “genius grant,” told me in a recent interview. “Genius grant” is...
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October 28, 2017 Loknath Das
Schools
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Thousands of learners from several schools in Cape Town have marched to Parliament demanding greater safety at schools. The march follows incidents of gang-related shootings and clashes on the Cape Flats in recent weeks. Learners, members of Equal Education and teacher unions Sadtu and Neptosa took part in the protest....
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October 28, 2017 Loknath Das
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A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a piece for Salon about Michael Moore where I recounted the story of how he became the youngest elected public official in U.S. history. At 18, Moore decided to run for head of his Michigan community school board on the simple platform that he...
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October 28, 2017 Loknath Das
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The Uttar Pradesh state government plans to equip all school examination centres with CCTV cameras by December this year to crack down on the use of unfair means by students. “Beginning next academic session, all examinations will be conducted under the watch of cameras. Buildings or premises that...
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October 28, 2017 Loknath Das
Schools
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Students of the Punjabi department at Panjab University, Chandigarh, have started a drive to “save the status of the language” as the administration has not been using it on signboards while English and Hindi are used. Mehtab, a student of the Punjabi department at PU, is one of...
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October 28, 2017 Loknath Das
Universities
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There’s good news and bad news for students planning to pursue careers in research in India. The union HRD ministry’s Kewal Kumar Sharma, secretary in the department of higher education, has announced that the Centre plans to grant monthly fellowships of Rs 70,000 each, to 2,000 PhD scholars...
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October 28, 2017 Loknath Das
Career
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