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Educational reform for the Obama administration “starts with testing and ends with data and more testing.”

While President Obama has acted less progressively than candidate Obama spoke, there are immense democratic possibilities within his administration

A war is being waged on today's younger generation, pillaging everything they have to offer, in deference to a rabid model of market fundamentalism and neoliberalism.

The hybridized concept of “manchild” marks a space in which innocence is lost and childhood stolen.

Those who are yet to become engaged with the work of Henry Giroux are missing out - big time.

The public morality of American life and social policy regarding matters of racial justice are increasingly subject to a politics of denial.

The other America is the at times glitzy, often gaudy world of rampant commodification and sexualization.

While “post-racial” may mean less overt racism, the idea that we have moved into a post-racial period in American history is an act of willful denial and ignorance.

The potential for lucrative profits to be made off the spending habits and economic influence of kids has certainly not been lost on Disney.

The current crisis offers an opportunity to question the ways in which children's culture has been corrupted by rampant commercialization, commodification and consumption.