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Public Education and the Arts: Lessons From the New Deal
Gaining, rather than losing, what unemployed workers have to offer would help to improve the quality of our schools, our economy and our national spirit.
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Charters Get Kids Cubicle-Ready
Rocketeers, as students are called, sit looking at computer screens up to two hours per day, supposedly learning by solving puzzles.
One Hundred KIPP Fifth Graders in a Single Classroom on the Floor for a Week Until They “Earned” Their Desks
KIPP spends a great deal of money promoting its brand of total compliance segregated charter schools as the tough love, no excuses solution for schooling in urban communities disabled …
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The Play’s the Thing
The mass incarceration of primarily poor people of color is one of the most shameful mass injustices committed in the United States.
Authenticity
Authenticity is one of the most important qualities to teach young people. To be truly who you are, to be comfortable in your own skin and to walk your …
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On Latin American Poverty and Fracking, American University Disregards Scholarly Standards
American University seems to be guilty of leaving false information on its website and failing to disclose a potential conflict of interest in an article on fracking in Latin …
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Henry A. Giroux | The Spectacle of Illiteracy and the Crisis of Democracy
Henry Giroux: We have moved from a culture of questioning to a culture of shouting and in doing so have restaged politics and power in both unproductive and anti-democratic …
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How School of the Americas Watch’s Perseverance Is Paying Off
When the first School of the Americas, or SOA, mass protest was held in 1990, its organizers probably didnu2019t think they would still be at it 23 years later.
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Petition Works: 37-Year Hispanic Scholarship Fund Dream Policy Overturned
Last month directors of the national Hispanic Scholarship Fund voted to reverse a 37-year-old policy of excluding DREAM students.
Noam Chomsky on Education and How “Manufacturing Consent” Brought Attention to East Timor Massacres
At the premier of the new animated film "Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy?" in New York City, Noam Chomsky joined filmmaker Michel Gondry in conversation.