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Education
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Charter Schools, the Invisible Hand, and Gutless Political Leadership
The commitment to charter schools is a coward's way out of facing reality and doing something.
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Howl Now: The Beaten Masses & Mass Disaster
The costs of education and student loan debt are used as weapons to enforce a neo-feudal caste system that sentences us to a lifetime of wage slavery. With the …
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Finding your activist voice
I was a really shy kid. In middle school, I tried to get through class without saying anything. But by high school it got so bad that at a …
Scratching The Surface: Daniel Falcone Interviews Tony Rotondo, author of “Scratch Where it Itches”
Tony Rotondo has taught English in West Chester, Pennsylvania since 1964 at every level ranging from 7th grade to Graduate School. He served as President of the Teachers Association …
The Perils of Zombie Education
Defined by their appetite, the Zombies our education system is producing are hollow people, easily led - and easily misled.
Growing Concern Cuts to Toronto Youth Programs Will Bring “Summer of War”
Community leaders fear rise in gun violence will result from cuts to summer youth programs in Toronto's poor and under-serviced neighborhoods
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Henry A. Giroux | Challenging Casino Capitalism and Authoritarian Politics in the Age of Disposability
There is by now an overwhelming catalogue of evidence revealing the depth and breadth of the corporate- and state-sponsored assaults being waged against democracy in the United States.
Carol Becker on Creative Leadership, Public Intellectuals and the Arts in Higher Education
In this interview, Carol Becker explains how she also views administrators within institutions such as universities as public intellectuals who can help empower and mobilize future generations of young …
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s War on Teachers and Children
School closures around the country have been justified by rationales of budget necessity and improvements in education outcomes, but in Chicago as elsewhere communities see no cost savings and …
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The Politics of Calling for No Politics
Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer (HBO Documentaries, 2013) offers a window into the intersections of music, religion, and politics in the context of Vladimir Putin’s Russia: On Feb. 21, 2012, …