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Education & Youth
Creating Out of Crisis
From many sorts of crises, admittedly often related, new openings can also emerge.
Panel Discusses the School-to-Prison Pipeline
To end the violence there must be radical reform of the school and prison moderated by Marc Steiner.
Infographic: Why Corporations Want Our Public Schools
Whereu2019s the big money in privatization? Take it from the teachers.
A Radical Historian’s 60th Reunion at Hotchkiss
I thrived in Chicago because I was beginning to do u201chistory from the bottom up.u201d
Teachers, Unions, Students Build Trinational Movement Against Neoliberal Education
Resistance to the global corporate education reform movement gained momentum last month as nearly 200 educators, students, and community allies from Mexico, Canada, and the US gathered in Chicago.
Frankenstein Fears His Monster: The Gates Foundation Wants You To Boycott High-Stakes Tests
While the Gates Foundation may be bending to the will of a popular revolt, it will take nothing short of mass civil rights movement to defeat its grotesque monster …
Caring About Peace and Justice on Campus, and Beyond
To really work for peace and justice, we have to see both as under the stewardship of all of us, and that peace and justice are the entitlements of …
Autistic Teen Entrapped by Cops, Jesse Snodgrass, to Participate in Graduation Ceremony at Chaparral High School
Jesse Snodgrass, the teenage special needs student arrested in an undercover police operation will receive his high school diploma at the Chaparral High School graduation ceremony on Thursday, June …
A Civil War Myth That Hurts Us All
Americans are shamefully unaware of their own country's past.
Michigan Teacher Suspended for Showing Video on Segregation and the Use of Black Face
There is a troubling case in Michigan where Alan Barron, a public school teacher at Monroe Middle School, has been suspended for teaching an eighth grade class on racial …