education

Book Reviews

School Suspensions, a Legacy of Racial Injustice

In the United States, school suspensions are more than a tool for managing behavior. Often justified in the name of order, the effect goes far beyond discipline. Far from being a neutral response, suspension produces a mechanism of exclusion. In Suspended Education: School Punishment and the Legacy of Racial Injustice, Aaron Kupchik examines how suspensions shape a system of racial inequality, transforming schools from spaces of development into institutions of control.

4.03.2026

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Georgia’s Higher Education ‘Reform’: The Capstone of an Authoritarian Turn

Georgia’s government has announced a sweeping reform of higher education that pulls more decisions under central control, trims academic diversity, and limits international engagement. This is not an administrative adjustment—it’s a decisive move to bring one of the country’s last relatively plural arenas entirely under political authority. Sandro Tabatadze explains what is at stake.

31.10.2025