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  1. The Berkeley Student Revolt
    Facts and Interpretations
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1965
    An anthology of writings on the Berkely student revolt of 1964.
  2. Berkeley: The New Student Revolt
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1965
    This story of the “free speech” uprising on the Berkeley campus of the University of California was begun in the conviction that an extraordinary event, in an historical sense, had taken place before our startled citizenry; and that it should be described for history as it was.
  3. Canadian Federation of Students (CFS)
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
  4. Censorship Goes To School
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1998
  5. Children of Privilege
    Student Revolt in the Sixties
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1984
  6. Compass Points
    Navigating the Twentieth Century
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1999
    A radical history of the twentieth century by a wide of Canadian authors and essayists grappling with crucial developments in politics, economics, society, and culture in Canada and abroad.
  7. Conflict Resolution in the Classroom
    A Curriculum Project
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1987
    Peer Conflict Resolution Through Creative Negotiation is a curriculum for grades four through six.
  8. Connexions Digest
    Volume 12, Number 2 - Issue 48 - Winter 1988-89 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1989
  9. Connexions Digest
    Issue 50 - December 1989 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1989
  10. Connexions Digest
    Issue 51 - May 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1990
  11. Connexions Digest
    Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1992
  12. Connexions Library: Education, Children Focus
    Resource Type: Website
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on education and children.
  13. Criminalizing Truancy
    Should Kids be Jailed for Skipping School?
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    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.
  14. France Spring 1968
    Masses in motion Ideas in free flow
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1968
  15. Free Speech Movement Archives
    Resource Type: Website
    Documenting the history of the 1960s Free Speech Movement at Berkeley.
  16. Free Speech Movement (Berkeley)
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    A student protest which took place during the 1964-1965 academic year on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley after student activists, some of whom had traveled with the Freedom Riders and worked to register African American voters in Mississippi in the Freedom Summer project, set up information tables on campus and solicited donations for civil rights causes, in violation of university policy.
  17. Just Wait Until I Get Tenure
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    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 agreed with his post, and I made a long reply. Here, I incorporate what I said into a more coherent commentary.
  18. Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution
    Volume II: The Politics of Social Classes
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1978
    Draper ranges through the development of the thought of Marx and Engels on the role of classes in society.
  19. Lawsuit Against Google Highlights Mining of Student Data
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    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 publication revealed an entire industry devoted to marketing data gathered from Internet applications offered to students and their teachers.
  20. The Little Red School-Book
    Resource Type: Book
  21. Lockdown High
    When the Schoolhouse Becomes a Jailhouse
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2011
    Schools in the U.S. are increasingly imposed unprecedented restrictions on students' rights, dignity, and educational freedom. In what is being called the school-to-prison pipleline, the police and practices of the juvenile justice system, including so-called "zero tolerance" policies, are pushing students out of schools.
  22. Long Way From Home
    The story of the Sixties generation in Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1980
    An account of the upheavals and transformations experienced by those who came of age in the 1960s, a time when international currents of change intersected with specifically Canadian events and circumstances.
  23. Make Sure You Don't Fall: Perspectives on the Recent Social Agitation in Chile, Part One
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    Discontent and rage have always been there, but while Social Democracy was in power, the supporters of the regime -- well placed in the open spaces for action and thought in high schools, universities and companies -- were able to use them to channel protests into directions that did not endanger the political credibility of the ruling parties.
  24. Nation (university)
    Wikipedia article
    Resource Type: 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 restricted to the ancient universities of Sweden and Finland. Medieval universities were large metropolitan centres and so the students, who were all born within the same region, usually spoke the same language, and expected to be ruled by their own familiar law joined together to form the nations.
  25. The New Student Left
    An Anthology
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1967
    A collection of essays by active participants in the 1960s student movement on American college campuses.
  26. The Newsletter
    Periodical profile
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1974
    Newsletter published in 1973 and 1974 by the New Tendency, a loose collaboration of independent leftists primarily based in Toronto, Windsor, Winnipeg, and Kitchener-Waterloo. Articles dealt with workplace issues, labour unions, workers autonomy and related topics. A total of five-and-a-half issues were published. Copies of the newsletters are available in the Connexions Archive and online on the Connexions website.
  27. Obsolete Communism
    The Left-Wing Alternative
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1969
    An account of the May 1968 uprising in Paris, positing a left radical alternative to the encrusted beliefs of the old left and the right. A comment on power, on bureaucracy, and on the paths to liberation.
  28. Our Generation
    Volume 24 Number 1
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1992
  29. Out of the Driver's Seat
    Marxism in North America Today
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1974
    Outlines the political perspective of the Windsor-based Labour Centre in the wake of divisions in the Centre in 1974. Issues explored include the nature of the working class, women in the working class, gay rights, and students rights.
  30. Palestinian students In Gaza prevented from pursuing studies
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2008
    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.
  31. The Port Huron Statement
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1962
    A seminal statement of the New Left, adopted by SDS in 1962.
  32. Protect Students from Corporate Data-Mining in the Classroom
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Across the political spectrum there is debate as to whether data should be collected about students.
  33. Push Comes to Shove
    The Escalation of Student Protest
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1970
    Diary of Kelman's undergraduate years at Harvard during times of SDS-led student protest.
  34. La Revolte des Etudiants Allemands
    Resource Type: Book
  35. Rochdale
    The Runaway Collage
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1987
    Toronto's Rochdale College began as an experiment in living and learning, and ended as a symbpl of the flower-child Sixties, a financial and social controversy. Sharpe tells the story of the college's seven-year rise and fall.
  36. Savio, Mario
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    American activist. (1942-1996).
  37. The Sixties
    Years of Hope, Days of Rage
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1987
    One of the best books on the Sixties in the U.S., bringing to life the political and cultural currents, including especially the music, which raged during that decade, and setting them in historical context.
  38. '68: The Year of the Barricades
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1988
    Caute's book looks at the explosive year 1968 (while situating it in the context of what had led up to it). One of the great strengths of this excellent book is that it looks at what was happening around the world.
  39. Skills Mania
    Snake Oil in Our Schools?
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2000
    Davis argues that the purpose of education should not be primarily that of teaching skills useful in the job market.
  40. Socialism and Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
    Representative democracy in every industrially advanced country is in a state of profound crisis. But we have been accustomed for so long to accept democracy in the form of its outward appearances and parliamentary institutions that its decay often does not become apparent to us until those institutions have been either brushed aside or reduced to a purely decorative role.
  41. "Solidarity" Beats Austerity
    Against The Current vol. 156
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    The tumultuous month of November 2011 marked the emergence of a powerful and widespread movement on public university campuses throughout California. Brutal police repression of Occupy encampments at UC Berkeley and UC Davis gained national media attention and sparked massive solidarity actions among social justice movements around the nation and the world.
  42. Storming Heaven
    1968 Revisted
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2008
    The eruptions of 1968 challenged the power structures north and south, east and west. Countries in each continent were infected with the desire for change. Hope reigned supreme.
  43. The Student Movement of the Thirties
    A Political History
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1965
    Most of the references one hears to the student movement of the thirties, and most published references too, are quite wrong in one basic respect: they speak as if 'the thirties' represented a single, homogeneous period for the student movement. But the biggest single fact about the history of this movement is that it went through a sweeping change in spirit, methods, and politics, which changed its face completely in mid-course.
  44. Student Power
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1969
    An anthology of essays.
  45. Student Power and the Canadian Campus
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1969
    A collection of articles about student activism in Canada in the lates 1960s.
  46. Student Protest
    The Student Radical in Search of issues....or, please don't shoot the Piano Player
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1968
  47. The Student Revolt
    Resource Type: Book
  48. Students Mean Trouble for Business
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1974
    Students have negative views of business, and business leaders are worried.
  49. SUPA - Student Union for Peace Action
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    A Canadian student organization active from 1964 to 1967.
  50. Ten Days That Shook the University
    On the Poverty of Student Life
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1966
    Published in 1966 at the University of Strasbourg by students of the university and members of the Internationale Situationniste.
  51. "The Backdrop Against Which Everything Happened"
    English-Canadian Student Movements and Off-Campus Movements for Change
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2007
    Examines the relationship between the 1960s' student movements at English-Canadian universities and provincial, national, and international movements for change.
  52. The Truth About Kent State
    A Challenge to the American Conscience
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
    An account of the murder of four students at Kent State University by National Guard troops.
  53. The University of Toronto
    A History
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2002
  54. What Johnny Shouldn't Read
    Textbook Censorship in America
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1998
  55. Worker-Student Action Committees France May '68
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1969
    An account of the May-June 1968 events in Paris. The authors state that "our intention is not to 'clarify' the sequence of events which took place in France in order to make possible a ritual repetition of these events, but rather to contrast the limited views we had of the events at the time we were engaged in them, with the views we have gained from further action in different contexts."
  56. Young Radicals
    Resource Type: Book

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