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Cyber Schools Fleece Taxpayers for Phantom Students and Failing Grades
K12 Inc. and ALEC have pushed a national agenda to replace brick-and-mortar classrooms with computers and ‘distance learning.’
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Justice Department Awards Grants for Police Officers in Schools
The DOJ is handing out $44 million to provide 356 school resource officers to 141 cities and counties around the country to make schools ‘safer.’
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Disaster Capitalism and Charter Schools: Revisiting New Orleans Post-Katrina
To understand U.S. education and education reform, Carru2019s story of New Orleans is an essential place to start.
Doing the Math: Student Loan Debt and the Adjunct Equation
Like other corporations, the university system makes a killing off part time workers and in turn, we are in debt for life.
Creationist Climate-Deniers Reviewing Texas Textbooks May Help Set a National Standard
Religious fundamentalists on the Texas Education Agency's textbook review panels could set a new national standard.
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Despite Repression, Mexican Teachers Continue to Resist Education Reform
Mexico's government is brutally repressing teachers protesting neoliberal education reform.
Communities Fight Back Against “Racist” DC School Closures
Rania Khalek: School closings in DC and across the country have not improved educational outcomes.
The Perennial Bowel Movement
The u201cback to the basicsu201d movement is here, again. Doesnu2019t this remind you of the 1980s?
The Dark Future of American Education: A Consideration of MOOCs
A distinguished educator considers how Massive open online courses may be a distinct improvement over traditional classroom course and how they could be devastatingly inferior to those programs.
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Public Education in the Crosshairs – ALEC’s Private Scholarship Tax Credits
ALEC's model bills for scholarship tax credits for private school tuition harm the people they are purported to help.