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Why Teaching People to Think for Themselves Is Repugnant to Religious Zealots and Rick Santorum
It is impossible to separate what we do in the classroom from the economic and political conditions that shape our work.
Book Burning in Arizona
There is more at work in the attack on ethnic studies than the rise of Tea Party politics and specific acts of censorship.
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Movement to End High-Stakes Testing Steps Up in Seattle
Teachers in Seattle high schools are refusing to administer a mandatory test, in defiance of public school and union policy.
Universities Gone Wild: Big Money, Big Sports and Scandalous Abuse at Penn State
The desecration of public trust is all the more vile when the persons and institution in question have been assigned the stewardship of generations of youth.
Why Faculty Should Join Occupy Movement Protesters on College Campuses
Too many academics for too long have turned their backs on addressing important social issues.
The Public Intellectual: Simon Dawes
Articles by Simon Dawes on Truthout.
The “Public University” as Response to Funding Cuts to UK’s Higher Education
Student protests have risen in the wake of the government's plans to make society pay for the economic crisis.
Occupy Colleges Now: Students as the New Public Intellectuals
Students are recognizing that it is crucial to struggle for the university as a democratic public sphere.
Beyond the Limits of Neoliberal Higher Education: Global Youth Resistance and the American/British Divide
“We need a wholesale revision of how a democracy both listens to and treats young people.”
Corporate Media and Larry Summers Team Up to Gut Public Education: Beyond Education for Illiteracy, Vulgarity and a Culture of Cruelty
Corporate power and money are unchecked as they privatize, deregulate and destroy all vestiges of public life.