In 2025, The Tennessean will take a close look at key issues facing the U.S. education system — and how students feel about them.

I first encountered the race/class debate as a live issue in the early 1970s, in the New Communist Movement debates that emerged out of Black Power and Students for a Democratic Society radicalism ...

Class Debate! Have students consider the information from the videos and class discussion to determine who they would support if they were considering the ratification of the U.S. Constitution.

Class is often omitted from public debate because it reveals the systemic nature of inequality and poverty. It does not fit with the political narrative that society is meritocratic.