Truthout
Education
Looking Back: A Year of Struggles on Climate, Education and Marriage Equality Inspire Hope for 2014
We look back on some of the many signs of hope that emerged on issues ranging from economic equality to LGBT rights to climate justice.
|
Faith-Based Education Reform: Common Core as Standards-and-Testing Redux
Along with embracing belief over evidence, the public (along with political leadership) in the U.S. tends to lack historical context.
The Kansas Regents’ (Unintentional) Honesty About Academic Freedom
The Regents have made clear that they want to crush academic freedom because they do not value it.
|
Ted Mitchell, Education Dept. Nominee, Has Strong Ties to Pearson, Privatization Movement
As head of the NewSchools Venture Fund, Mitchell oversees investments in education technology start-ups.
|
Why Charter Schools Are Foolish Investments for States Facing Economic Challenges
South Carolina's children deserve data-based and lean school reform policy, and not advocacy-based experiments.
Kansas Board of Regents Undermine Academic Freedom at State Universities
Bill Black: Draconian measure enacted by Kansas Board of Regents that effectively ends tenure and limits academic freedom could be replicated at colleges nationwide.
Bilingual Education Produces a More Diverse Mind and Society
A recent incident in Hempstead Texas made news when a middle school principal ordered Mexican-American students not to speak Spanish or else face punishment.
|
The End of Childhood in the Era of the Emerging American Police State
We are living in the age of fear and paranoia, an age which threatens the very core concepts of childhood development, and even the basic facets of our democratic …
|
Public Education and the Arts: Lessons From the New Deal
Gaining, rather than losing, what unemployed workers have to offer would help to improve the quality of our schools, our economy and our national spirit.
|
Charters Get Kids Cubicle-Ready
Rocketeers, as students are called, sit looking at computer screens up to two hours per day, supposedly learning by solving puzzles.