Truthout
Education
Schools Without Playgrounds, Children Without Childhood, a Future Without Hope
Schools are more and more beginning to resemble maximum-security prisons, but at least at most of those institutions, there is one hour of outdoor time.
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James Baldwin, Lisbeth Salander and the Rise of the Police State in Some Children’s Schools
P.L. Thomas discusses the fiction and reality of fear and power in the middle class cocoon.
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Ten Ways School Reformers Get It Wrong
When it comes to education reform, we're not trying to reinvent the wheel anymore; instead we're building square ones.
Charles Glass: With Annan’s Exit and Influx of Foreign Arms, Syria’s Violence “Seems the Only Way Out”
A hardening diplomatic impasse brings even more urgency to the violent crisis.
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Jim Hightower: Turning College Students Into Commodities
Turning Wall Street loose on college students will turn them into chattel indentured to investors.
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Taking Henry Giroux’s Borderless Pedagogy to Our Institutions of Higher Learning
We must move away from accepting the structural and ideological constraints that maintain current systems of domination.
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Education’s Biggest Design Flaw
I live on the west bank of the Indian River Lagoon on Floridau2019s East Coast. Across the Lagoon, in the distance, is Kennedy Space Center. For years, I walked …
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The Ruling Elite and the Perversion of Scholarship
There is probably no more inhospitable place to be an intellectual, a person of color or a member of the LGBT community than at the Big Ten Conference colleges.
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City College Closure Could End San Francisco’s Adult Education Program
When Eunice Kim came to City College of San Francisco in 2007, she was looking for a way up and out of the spiraling travel industry that sheu2019d been …
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How Abuse, Corruption and Silence at Penn State Perpetuate a Poisonous Culture
A former Penn State student and instructor says a culture of abuse exists well beyond the football field and the school's problems are systemic.