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Palestinian students In Gaza prevented from pursuing studies
2008-10-21
Friends of Humanity International
Friends of Humanity International calls on the Egyptian authorities to resolve the dilemma of the Palestinians students who are studying abroad and all those besieged in the Gaza Strip.

Sources Select Resources

Connexions Library: Education, Children Focus
Website
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on education and children.
Criminalizing Truancy
Should Kids be Jailed for Skipping School?
Fuentes, Annette
Article
2012
CounterPunch
American jurisdictions are increasingly turning to the criminal justice system to deal with truancy. Students and parents are being fined, and in some cases jailed, for missing school.
Free Speech Movement Archives
Website
Documenting the history of the 1960s Free Speech Movement at Berkeley.
Just Wait Until I Get Tenure
Yates, Michael D
Article
2017
CounterPunch
A Facebook friend, Steven Salaita, recently wrote a post about academe arguing that tenure-track professors are kidding themselves if they say they will become more radical once they get tenure. I agr...
Lawsuit Against Google Highlights Mining of Student Data
Telbis, Rozali
Article
2014
CorpWatch
Children have become lucrative targets for data mining companies, according to a study by Politico magazine. Just weeks after Google settled a lawsuit for selling student data for advertising, the pub...
Nation (university)
Wikipedia article
Article
Student nations or simply nations (Latin: natio meaning "being born") are regional corporations of students at a university. Once widespread across Europe in medieval times, they are now largely restr...
Protect Students from Corporate Data-Mining in the Classroom
Nava, Victor
Article
2015
National Review
Across the political spectrum there is debate as to whether data should be collected about students.
Sources for Students
Website
Sources
Students Mean Trouble for Business
Diemer, Ulli
Article
1974
The Varsity
Students have negative views of business, and business leaders are worried.
SUPA - Student Union for Peace Action
Connexipedia Article
Stevenson, William
Article
2010
Connexions
A Canadian student organization active from 1964 to 1967.
"The Backdrop Against Which Everything Happened"
English-Canadian Student Movements and Off-Campus Movements for Change
Lexier, Roberta
Article
2007
History of Intellectual Culture, Volume 7, No. 1
Examines the relationship between the 1960s' student movements at English-Canadian universities and provincial, national, and international movements for change.

Sources Bookshelf

Reading Lolita in Tehran
Nafisi, Azar
Book
2003

Media

Jobpostings
Canada's student recruitment and job listings magazine.
The Student Traveller
A travel magazine featuring articles on travel in general and to specific destinations, with focus on student travellers and backpackers.


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