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Education & Youth
On My Son’s First Day of Kindergarten: OurSchoolsAreNotFailing.org Organizes Communities to Defend Their Schools From NCLB
It's time for the voices of parents, teachers and students to be heard and respected.
Truthout Interviews Featuring Adam Bessie and Dan Carino on Bill Gates, Graphic Journalism, and the Education Reform Hype Machine
Ted Asregadoo speaks to English Professor Adam Bessie and Graphic Journalist Dan Carino about Bill Gates' free-market education reform movement that emphasizes a more technocratic and quantitatively rigid curriculum.
A Teacher Remembers His Class Before the Age of Facebook
Thirty-five human beings sharing the same space met in real time and bonded around a common experience. But, that world in education is slowly slipping away.
Six Reasons Why UC Berkeley Should Investigate John Yoo Instead of Honoring Him – Or, Silence is Complicity
A basic skill of an effective lawyer is the ability to form a legal opinion regarding specific factual circumstances.
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 …