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Education & Youth
Bronx Theater Uses Avant-Garde Approach to Teach Everyday Activism
Whether the crisis is AIDS or cyber-bullying, Pregones Theater's empathy-based theater techniques help young people rehearse for action.
“Stop Blaming Teachers, Start Funding Schools”: More Than 30,000 Teachers Walk Out in Protest of Big Class Sizes in Washington State
Let the Washington State Legislature know that they must come up with the money for our schools.
Pakistan Cannot Handle Educated Jihadists
Pakistan needs to broaden its profile or risk a new wave of barely understood terror.
You’ve Been Scammed! Kept Politicians and Demobilized Americans in a System Without a Name
Tom Engelhardt addresses the graduates of 2014 from “the campus of his mind.”
Gay High School Student Delivers Valedictorian Speech He Was Barred From Giving
Evan Young's principal stopped him from giving his speech after learning he would announce he is gay.
Charter Industry Strong-Arms Public Officials; $3.3 Billion Spent
The charter schools program was not designed with accountability and transparency in mind. Quite the contrary.
The Student Loan Crisis and the Debtfare State
Debtfarism represents a set of institutional and ideological practices aimed at regulating and normalizing the growing dependence on expensive consumer credit to meet basic needs, such as education.
Getting Children Back to School Is the Next Priority for Nepal Earthquake Recovery
UNICEF suggests that up to a million children who were enrolled in school before the quake have no school to return to.
We Trust Children to Know What Gender They Are, Until They Go Against the Norm
A debate is running as to whether young children could possibly know their gender at a young age.
The Poverty Machine: Student Debt, Class Society and Securing Bonded Labor
Millennials are forecast to experience a decline in standards of living comparative to their forebears.