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Education
Jim Crow in the Classroom: New Report Finds Segregation Lives on in US Schools
As the US Supreme Court upholds a ban on affirmative action in Michigan and the country marks 60 years since Brown v. Board of Education, Democracy Now! interviews ProPublica's …
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Milking Public Education
A Teach For America teacher grows leery of the role of charter schools.
The Resegregation of American Schools
ProPublica reporter Nikole Hannah-Jones discusses her year-long investigation into how one of desegregation's success stories in Tuscaloosa, Alabama became one of the most segregated school systems in the country, …
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Fighting for Coveted Combat Badges and Patches
What will West Point graduates do without wars in Iraq and Afghanistan? Don't worry! There are a lot more threats listed on the classroom chalkboard.
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Charter Schools and the Destruction of Public Education
Charter schools are a scam inflicted on black and Latino children and are meant to turn education into just another profit center.
Revolution Against Corporate Education Targets Achilles Heel
Defeating corporate education reform here in the US could save millions of young, critically thinking minds around the world.
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Social Change: We Are the Problem We Are Seeking to Solve
Social change movements want to fix a world dominated by exploitative relationships. Most social change theory aims at fixing particular systems, practices, toolkits, etc. Theory that works from the …
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Cultural Production of Ignorance Provides Rich Field for Study
Stanford professor Robert Proctor doesn't think ignorance is bliss. He thinks that what you don't know can hurt you. And that there's more ignorance around than there used to …
On Children and Childhood
A teacher examines the way children view the world, and how adult actions impact them.
“An Act of Conscience”: Teachers at New York’s Earth School Boycott Common Core Tests!
Teachers at a New York school boycott Common CORE standardized tests.