Mass Firings & Campus Crackdowns: U.S. Academia Under Fire
Education News Headline Roundup
We’re rounding up and analyzing education news headlines this week on 16:1:
- The U.S. Department of Education is now half its former self—with 1,300 staffers gone and lawsuits brewing over what critics call a systematic gutting of civil rights protections. We’re sorting through the challenges and exploring the fallout on public education.
- Arrests of Palestinian student activists at Columbia have raised fresh questions about academic freedom and the future of the United States’ role in international scholarship. With visa crackdowns and a shaken reputation among U.S. universities, the stakes are higher than ever. Some European universities (like Aix Marseille) are offering safe haven to researchers leaving the U.S. due to concerns over academic freedom.
- We also take a look at Title VI investigations targeting diversity programs and the pushback by parents, students, disability advocates, and more.
- We’re revisiting the Science of Reading with updates on how the literacy movement continues to reshape classrooms nationwide.
For a full list of episode sources and resources, visit our website at sixteentoone.com/archives.
Sources & Resources:
- The Education Department is being cut in half. Here’s what’s being lost
- Parents Sue Trump Administration for Allegedly Sabotaging Education Department’s Civil Rights Division
- Class-action lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Education and Education Secretary Linda McMahon | DocumentCloud
- Democratic states sue Trump over major cuts to the Department of Education | CNN Politics
- State of NY et al vs. Linda McMahon and Dept. of Ed
- Who is Mahmoud Khalil, Palestinian student activist facing US deportation?
- DHS official defends Mahmoud Khalil arrest, but offers few details on why it happened
- DHS Detains Palestinian Student from Columbia Encampment
- Arrest of pro-Palestinian protester shows escalation in Trump deportation efforts
- US arrests second pro-Palestinian Columbia University protester
- US arrests second student over Columbia University pro-Palestinian activism | Aljazeera
- An Archive of Student Protest and University Sanctions | Contemporary Critical Thought
- NASA, Yale, and Stanford Scientists Consider ‘Scientific Exile,’ French University Says
- Education Department launches investigation into dozens of colleges – POLITICO
- Press Release – Department of Education
- The PhD Project
- Truth Social – Trump Post
- Trump administration investigating Ohio State, UC over minority Ph.D. student program
- Safe Place For Science: Aix Marseille University ready to welcome American scientists
- Five years since COVID, Louisiana’s readers are thriving. This is their secret.
- Most school districts have lots of kids who struggle with reading. This one is different. | The Outlier | APM Reports
- Success for All Foundation
- Tailored programs and early learning cited as keys to Steubenville’s literacy success
- Episode 107 – The Science of Reading: Controversy or Consensus? – 16:1 – An Education Podcast
- Episode 104 – Landmark Supreme Court Cases That Changed U.S. Education: Part II – 16:1 – An Education Podcast
- Over 50% of Ohio’s lowest-performing districts must change curricula for science of reading