School is meant to be a safe space for students to build social and intellectual skills. At the same time, it can quickly turn into a violent landscape. Take Watsonville High School, where four teenagers were arrested on charges of attempted murder and felony battery. One of the teenagers, a 16-year-old boy, can be tried […]
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Caught in the Crossfire: UC Berkeley and the Federal War on Higher Education
At the crossroads of politics and pedagogy, the Department of Education has become a focal point of national controversy under the Trump Administration. Since 1867, the Department of Education has widely administered and funded state-run education in the United States. Along with this function, it also operates investigations on the grounds of racial preferences, and […]
A Homicide Against Academia
On August 14th, UC Berkeley students received an email from the Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor & Provost that provided an all-access service for Google’s AI large-language model (LLM), Gemini. Vice Chancellor Hermalin and his colleagues crafted an email that consists of two main parts: the first section of the email outlines the services […]
The Smithsonian v. Nationalism
Individuals are able to communicate with the past, present, and the future through museums; they can interact with their long-lived ancestors, connect through deteriorating or flourishing culture, and discover minor and major triumphs as well as sins of the collective. It’s a privilege of the United States to be home to the world’s largest museum […]
Inside San Quentin: The Transformative Power of Education and Rehabilitation
This summer, I worked at a small non-profit organization called Humans of San Quentin, whose primary aim is to humanize incarcerated people through personal narratives and other creative contributions. I not only read about the lives and experiences of countless people in prison, but also talked to them on the phone and asked questions that […]
The Executive’s Ambush on Multilingualism
On March 6, 2025, the Executive Office of the President released Executive Order no. 14224: Designating English as the Official Language of the United States. The order revokes Executive Order 13166, which was put in place to protect limited English proficiency (LEP) people’s access to federally-funded services like education by providing multilingual access to their […]
School Vouchers: Salvation or Scam?
Imagine if you were only legally allowed to shop at one grocery store. The produce is rotten, and the store doesn’t have any of your favorite items. Worse, other customers are violent, and they harass you, so you feel unsafe every time you shop. If you pay an exorbitant amount of money, you could shop […]
From Abandoned to Essential: China’s Ban on International Adoptions Signals a New Era for Daughters
For decades, Chinese daughters were abandoned in favor of sons, leading to waves of international adoptions like Kate’s. This new restriction on international adoption seems to signal a change in how Chinese society views its daughters today.
Teaching in America: A Shattered Dream
I dreamed of following in my mother’s footsteps to become a teacher. We would spend our Augusts decorating her classrooms with cheesy quotes and fun colors. During the year, she would grade assignments and share her elementary school students’ funny insights while I did my homework by her side. Then, I began to watch her […]
Silencing Knowledge: The Ignorance Behind Book Bans
At the age of four, we are sent off into an entirely new world filled with education. We move grade to grade, learning about our passions and eventually what we want to do in life, largely credited to the content we digest and are given in classrooms. However, children of the new generation and those […]