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Students Should Be Creative Innovators, Not Force-Fed Consumers of Status-Quo Knowledge
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 …
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How the #FergusonSyllabus Can Help Teachers Talk About Race and Rights on the First Day of School
Teachers and educators collect ideas and resources for how to talk about Ferguson with students of all ages.
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Should Taxpayers Subsidize the Pay of College Presidents?
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 …
A Teacher in Kabul
Zekerullah yearns for knowledge as well as justice, and he's willing to sacrifice for both.
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Elite Attackers of Public Schools Don’t Admit the Impact of Economic Inequality, Racism on Education
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 …
Big Dallas Plunder: Open Door to Wholesale School Privatization
Dallas business interests stacked the school board. Now, a rule change could open the door for wholesale school privatization.
The Con Artistry of Charter Schools
Once an effort to improve public education, the charter school movement has transformed into a money-making venture.
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Homeschooling for Critical Consciousness
Educator Jeffrey Nall explains why he and his wife, April, homeschool their children.
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Abandoning the K-12 School System: Listening to Our Children and Thinking for Ourselves
Progressive parent Jeffrey Nall explains that he and his wife, April, abandoned the K-12 education system for their children because of its promotion of obedience and conformity - and …
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Global Coalition of Access to Research, Science and Education Organizations Calls on STM to Withdraw New Model Licenses
Let us work together towards a world where the whole sum of human knowledge, both that from within academia and that from without, is accessible, usable, reusable and interoperable.