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Teachers, Unions, Students Build Trinational Movement Against Neoliberal Education
Resistance to the global corporate education reform movement gained momentum last month as nearly 200 educators, students, and community allies from Mexico, Canada, and the US gathered in Chicago.
Henry A. Giroux | Data Storms and the Tyranny of Manufactured Forgetting
“As historical memory is erased, critical thought is crushed by a sterile instrumental rationality under the guise of mass information and a data storm.”
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Violent and Legal: The Shocking Ways School Kids Are Being Pinned Down, Isolated Against Their Will
Carson Luke, a young boy with autism, shattered bones in his hand and foot after educators grabbed him and tried to shut him into a “scream room.” Kids across …
Henry A. Giroux | Protesting Youth in the Age of Neoliberal Cruelty
The possibility for alliances, unity, and comprehensive understanding of politics among the youth of the world is greater than ever before.
Frankenstein Fears His Monster: The Gates Foundation Wants You To Boycott High-Stakes Tests
While the Gates Foundation may be bending to the will of a popular revolt, it will take nothing short of mass civil rights movement to defeat its grotesque monster …
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Obama Lambastes Climate Change Deniers as “Radical Fringe” in California Speech
Stymied by Congress, Obama has been using executive actions where he can to curb emissions that contribute to climate change.
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LA Judge Objects to School Police Getting Millions Reserved for Struggling Students
Other California school districts are also considering using money earmarked for vulnerable students to supplement school police or security instead.
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The 37 Senators Who Voted for Millionaires Over Students
Senate Republicans sided with 22,000 millionaires over 40 million Americans with student debt by blocking the Bank on Students Emergency Loan Refinancing Act.
Caring About Peace and Justice on Campus, and Beyond
To really work for peace and justice, we have to see both as under the stewardship of all of us, and that peace and justice are the entitlements of …
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A Tale of Two Vergaras: Of Stardom and the End of Teacher Tenure
In much the same way that vouchers and charters have been sold via civil rights language, so too was Vergara v. California argued in court and marketed to the …