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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.
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Between Race and Reason: Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
(Image: Stanford University Press)
Henry Giroux on Democracy Unsettled: From Critical Pedagogy to the War on Youth
“Theory needs to be rigorous and accessible, and it needs to address not merely the outer limits of disciplinary scholarship but also important social problems.”
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The Problem With Affirmative Action
(Photo: _Davo_) Henry Louis Gates Jr., the famed African-American literary scholar and director of the Du Bois Institute at Harvard University, recently reflected the following in an …
Vocalo Feature: Inside the Arizona Ethnic Studies Battle (Audio)
Elisa Meza and Mike Ludwig discuss the battle to preserve Mexican American Studies in Tucson public schools and how the ethnic studies debate tends to get misrepresented.
American Democracy Beyond Casino Capitalism and the Torture State
We need new public spheres to generate a formative culture of change and justice.
Higher Education Under Attack: An Interview With Henry A. Giroux
War at home is matched by a war on youth.
Remembering Howard Zinn, Once Again
In his work, Howard Zinn embodied a notion of agency that exhibited a fierce moral courage and a deep propensity for engaged social action.
Beyond the Swindle of the Corporate University: Higher Education in the Service of Democracy
Memories of the university as a citadel of democratic learning have been replaced by a university eager to define itself largely in economic terms.