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“The Poor Are Too Free?:" Unlocking the Middle-Class Code
The “idealized middle-class fantasy ignores that behind the weightless freedom often lurked the life-long burden of debt” writes PL Thomas.

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Juvenile Justice Is Taking a Positive Trajectory – Will it Be Hurt by Harsh Gun Laws?
Research shows strict laws for juveniles do little or nothing to result in lower crime rates.

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The Premise of Digital Surveillance Precludes Scholarship
Looking up ‘jihad’ in the dictionary does not a jihadist make.

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America’s Culture is Signing on the Dotted Line
The signing season has begun. Look through your local newspaper for the next few weeks, and you'll see a lot of posed pictures of high school athletes. Everyone will …

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Journey for Justice Testimonies: Kansas City and Chicago
I am a parent of a third grader and volunteer parent organizer for Kansas City Public Schools, an unaccredited school district. As an organizer, I serve on the District …

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Why Johnny Can’t Read or Win Wars
Johnny isn't able to think critically - and that's the point of a corporate-business model of education.

The School Security America Doesn’t Need
Ending this cycle of armed fear and violence will require getting police out of the schools along with the whole battery of security state accessories.

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Detroit School Board In Exile: A Partial Victory In Court
The Board went to court today with our two fearless lawyers, Buck Davis and Cynthia Heenan. They only recently received the right to payment for representing us and we …

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Arm Kids to Combat Propaganda: Teach Reason – the Fourth “R” – in the Classroom
Our children need sound thinking skills to reverse our mindless path of death and destruction.

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Threatened a President But Passed Her Background Check?
It barely made the news—like this week's Delaware courthouse shooting that left three dead. But last week the New York Times reported that Alice Boland threatened administrators at Ashley …