More than 1,500 books have been banned in public schools, and a U.S. House panel asks why

Lisa R. Parker

WASHINGTON — A U.S. Household Oversight and Reform Committee panel on Thursday examined why hundreds of textbooks, predominantly composed by marginalized authors, have been banned from community universities, and the effects of these steps on pupils and academics. “Most publications staying qualified for censorship are textbooks that introduce suggestions about […]

A bleak picture of SA’s public schools

Lisa R. Parker

In a Cape Flats classroom, a diligent matric student yearns for a maths instructor. Her classmates, frustrated with all they have shed out on, antagonise the substitute instructor they’ve been sent — his specialty, following all, is in English and lifestyle orientation.  Riaz Solker’s Sodium Day, releasing in selected Nu […]