NEWARK STUDENTS UNION

Located in Newark, NJ! The Newark Students Union is an organization founded by and for Newark students We fight for every student in Newark to have equal educational opportunities. Educate yourself. Speak Your Voice. Take Action.

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Despite Cami not appearing, we still made our voices heard! #ournewark #DCDeserted

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The revolutions coming only 7 hours left. #ItsAShoreThing #WeDecided #OurNewark

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@rumvp Talking about their views on the importance of education for prisoners! #yournj #potentialcollaboration

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@thegemproject talking about their organization!! #yournj #potentialcollaboration

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Newark students union at a workshop at the Youth Retreat! #yournj

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Newark parent leader arrested, jailed, after criticizing state plan to close schools.

A parent leader who criticized the "One Newark" plan pushed by state school superintendent Cami Anderson was arrested yesterday  on charges he assaulted a central office administrator. Daryn Martin, president of the Parent Teacher Organization at the Ivy Hill School, was charged with "aggravated assault" but released on his own recognizance. If convicted, he faces three to&

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The NSU General meeting for the month of February is coming up on Thursday!! Get involved in what is going on in our school district!! Remember to stand up & fight back!

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Make sure you make it! Cami will be there!

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Argentina JUST PASSED a groundbreaking gender identity bill!!!

From now on, people will be able to change the name and gender on their ID without needing psychiatric permission or any body modifications. Furthermore, anyone who does want hormones or surgery will be able to access them for free through the public and private health system.

It was passed unanimously today by the Senate

UNANIMOUSLY

Argentina is just getting more awesome by the year. Countries that aren’t Argentina need to take note.

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Check out the great turnout at the NSU meeting! Congrats to our newest officers Daniel, Tiffany, Khadija, and Taylor

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(Posted by Occupy Wall Street)

Okay. I’m sorry. This doesn’t go with my blog. Whatever. I understand that, but there is something about this that is really striking. 

I hate our current education system. It seems like a mass production of engineers, doctors… any sort of profession that perpetuates and stabilizes the economy and “adequately contributes to society”. If you’re not a doctor, or a lawyer, or an engineer, you’re worthless.

I hate this. I despise this sort of social control, encapsulating our societies’ young teenagers in a suffocating trap, in which they are forced into professions they hate. It may be naive, but what ever happened to human beings pursuing their own careers? Their own “lots in life”? Contributing society in their own way, rather than being taught to think like everyone else, act like everyone else, go to the same colleges as everyone else, and go into the same professions as everybody else? 

Whatever happened to thinking for one’s self or maybe even making one’s own decision as to what career path to follow?

Whatever happened to that innate pursuit of learning within us all, that is contorted and suppressed by such a deafening and suffocating system?

I want to become a secondary school teacher. I want to go into education reform. I want to transform public education into what it is supposed to be, not what it is now. I want to perpetuate new ideas, philosophies, innovations and most of all, individual students.

I want to put an end to this kind of social control and allow an individual’s education to be a more autonomous and liberated one. 

I am done this flawed system.

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When Students cheat on exams it’s because our School System values grades more than Students value learning.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) April 14, 2013

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Toppling Michelle Rhee

Like a lot of illustrations I do for education sociologist Mark Garrison, this one draws on my…

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Here's a short documentary of the NSU

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Just in case you didn't get the update on Facebook #NSU #Newarkstudentsunion #movement #education reform#Newark #Newarkstudents #Protest