Education

New York City mayor Bill de Blasio touted universal pre-kindergarten as a way to fight inequality. But the program shows inequalities of its own.

Ted Asregadoo speaks to English Professor Adam Bessie and Graphic Journalist Dan Carino about Bill Gates' free-market education reform movement that emphasizes a more technocratic and quantitatively rigid curriculum.

Unless students are empowered to help shape their own educations, and use their skills and energy to fight for justice and make their neighborhoods better places, there will be …

Teachers and educators collect ideas and resources for how to talk about Ferguson with students of all ages.

If we can get qualified people to run the Defense Department and Department of Health and Human Services for half this amount, perhaps their school is not the sort …

Zekerullah yearns for knowledge as well as justice, and he's willing to sacrifice for both.

In the Progressive Pick book, ‘Badass Teachers Unite,’ Mark Naison points out that school reform policies scapegoat teachers and represent a brilliant tactic to avoid dealing with the real …

Dallas business interests stacked the school board. Now, a rule change could open the door for wholesale school privatization.

Once an effort to improve public education, the charter school movement has transformed into a money-making venture.

Educator Jeffrey Nall explains why he and his wife, April, homeschool their children.