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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
Howard Zinn, A Public Intellectual
What was so moving and unmistakable about Howard was his humility, his willingness to listen, his refusal of all orthodoxies and his sense of respect for others.
Schools and the Pedagogy of Punishment
Students are being miseducated, criminalized and arrested through a form of penal pedagogy in lockdown schools that resemble prisons
Obama’s View of Education Is Stuck in Reverse
Educational reform for the Obama administration “starts with testing and ends with data and more testing.”
Beyond Bailouts: On the Politics of Education After Neoliberalism
How is it possible to imagine a more equitable transformation in government and economics without a simultaneous transformation in culture, consciousness, social identities and values?