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Education
Selling Out New York City’s Public Schools: Mayor Bloomberg, David Steiner and the Politics of Corporate “Leadership”
Politicians, anti-public intellectuals and conservative-leaning media pundits no longer ask what kind of education is needed in a democratic society.
Lessons to Be Learned From Paulo Freire as Education Is Being Taken Over by the Mega Rich
Freire is one of the most important educators of the 20th century and is considered one of the most important theorists of “critical pedagogy.”
Business Culture and the Death of Public Education: The Triumph of Management Over Leadership
Management divorced from leadership privatizes hope, deskills teachers and treats students as consumers.
When Generosity Hurts: Bill Gates, Public School Teachers and the Politics of Humiliation
High stakes accountability and punishing modes of leadership, regardless of the damage they wreak on students and teachers, are now the only game in town when it comes to …
Gutting Public Education: Neoliberalism and the Politics of Opportunism
America's political and economic elites have declared a war on working, middle-class and poor Americans. Now that war is coming to a head with the draconian cuts in education, …
Why Duncan’s Corporate-Based Schools Can’t Deliver an Education That Matters
Public schooling is more and more being shaped by a pedagogy of containment, security and conformity that undermines critical thought.
Teachers Without Jobs and Education Without Hope
The United States' choice to deal with its financial crisis by further weakening public and higher education is devastating.
Dumbing Down Teachers: Attacking Colleges of Education in the Name of Reform
We must take matters of education seriously if we are going to survive as a democracy.
In Defense of Public School Teachers in a Time of Crisis
We need a new language for understanding public education as formative for democratic institutions.
On Pop Clarity: Public Intellectuals and the Crisis of Language
It is nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind. - James Baldwin