Most have voted to stay, but we must take on board their urgent concerns about our ability to fight for students' interests.
Re "When Gadgets Get in the Way" (Aug. 19), describing technology-based efforts by teachers to fight for students' attention: Such efforts to beat them at their own game fail deeply, in both practical and educational terms.
The changes should put the NUS in a stronger position to fight for students' rights ahead of the 2009 review of higher education funding and, specifically, to keep the existing cap on variable tuition fees rather than raise or remove it altogether.
He helped fight for student discounts for the Beeline bus service when the prices were raised for the community.
For those interested in learning more about the the fight for student rights, check out my book, Unlearning Liberty: Campus Censorship and the End of American Debate.
Today I have learned that there are multiple movements and fights for poorer students to enter college, and this is why I appreciate having read this New York Times article: for hope.
Sadly, many teachers who fight hard for students, who seek to end the achievement gap, who challenge the ways that our schools reproduce class and racial hierarchies, accept the "what" of schooling, the content of the curriculum as it is laid out by the powerful and the privileged.
We'll defend our students, we will fight for our students and when it comes to it, when management get in the way, we will fight them to fight to defend our students.
Caught, and sometimes forgotten, in this battle are the people it is being fought for--the students.
