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Education
Will Students Vote in November? Perspectives on Elections at the National Student Power Convergence
Electoralism and radicalism don't have to be mutually exclusive, but finding common ground is still a challenge.
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What Bullies Can Teach Our Kids, and Us
Shannon Hayes on the important lesson that can be learned by standing up to a bully.
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Subliminal Message: Rahm Lost
Emanuel accepts financing from groups whose goal is the destruction of teachers unions and the eventual breakup of public education itself.
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Unresolved OPD Shooting of Black Teenager Alan Blueford Illustrates Oakland’s Continuing Crisis of Governance
After seeking justice from the City of Oakland for months, the family of Alan Blueford finally caught the attention of city leaders on September 18 when their protest brought …
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Zombie Functionalism and the Return of Neo-Instrumentality in Education
For decades now, the debate in America over education has swerved back and forth between student testing, teacher accountability, standards, competitiveness and what curriculum should contain.
A Dissident Voice for Democratic Schooling: Writer Gabriel San Roman Interviews Radical Educator Antonia Darder
I was forced to contend with a variety of inequalities that placed huge constraints upon me, and others like me, as a direct result of poverty, racism and sexism.
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Who Is Victimizing Chicago’s Kids?
Yes, schoolchildren in Chicago are victims, but not of their teachers...
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What We Won in Chicago
The Chicago Teachers Union, through its courage and militancy, has shifted the ground on education reform and on teacher unionism. They have shown not only that it is possible …
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Beyond “Good” and “Bad”: On Teachers
Great teachers stay focused all times, linking empowerment - the ability to think and act critically - to the concept of social transformation.
Lockdown High: Annette Fuentes on the “School-to-Prison Pipeline”
In the following exclusive interview, Annette Fuentes talks about her work, her book and shares insight into the u201cschool-to-prison pipeline,u201d including zero tolerance policies that puts kids in harmu2019s …