Interview | Education & Youth As the Obama Administration Seeks More Funding for Charter Schools, Questions Raised Over Billions Spent A report claims charter schools are spending billions with no oversight. By Juan González & Amy Goodman , DemocracyNow! May 8, 2015 Truthout
Excerpt | Education & Youth “Disposable Futures”: Critique of Violence Exposing violence is not the same as being exposed to it, though the former too often comes as a result of the latter. By Henry A. Giroux & Brad Evans , CityLightsBooks May 6, 2015 Truthout
Op-Ed | Education & Youth State of Emergency in Baltimore Should Continue Indeed, a state of emergency with a domestic Marshall Plan like design should be declared in many other urban and rural communities in our nation. By Alvin Thornton , SpeakOut May 6, 2015 Truthout
News Analysis | Education & Youth Vouchers on the Move: Return to School Segregation? Voucher bills are on the move in multiple states and on Capitol Hill. By Jonas Persson , PRWatch May 2, 2015 Truthout
Op-Ed | Education & Youth A University Is Not Walmart The business model has taken over higher education and subverted its mission. By Jefferson M. Fish , PsychologyToday May 1, 2015 Truthout
Op-Ed | Education & Youth Black Lives Matter: Let the Students Speak, Let Her Teach I thank you for following your educational mission and engaging in this humanistic endeavor while valuing "intelligent dissent [over] passive agreement," to quote Bertrand Russell. April 27, 2015 Truthout
News Analysis | Education & Youth Who Will Test the Testers? Danny Katch reports on New York's record-breaking test boycott. By Danny Katch , SocialistWorker April 23, 2015 Truthout
Op-Ed | Education & Youth Koch Funding of Universities Shrouded in Secrecy What are university administrators so afraid of disclosing? By Kalin Jordan , PRWatch April 23, 2015 Truthout
News Analysis | Education & Youth Countering the “Chega Freire” Campaign in Brazil: Our Emancipatory Struggle Continues Civil unrest has led to the call for military intervention by the more reactionary sectors of the population. By Antonia Darder , Truthout April 22, 2015 Truthout
Op-Ed | Education & Youth Atlanta Trial: The Ultimate in Test-and-Punish The reality is that more than a dozen years of standardized testing under No Child Left Behind have made little difference. By Jan Resseger , TheProgressive April 22, 2015 Truthout