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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 …
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A Civil War Myth That Hurts Us All
Americans are shamefully unaware of their own country's past.
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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 …
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Endgame: Disaster Capitalism, New Orleans, and the Charter Scam
How to monetize and what will the market bear are the guiding ethics of disaster capitalism, which exists seamlessly within the larger ethic of the US, capitalism.
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Indigenous Peoples Reject Bill C-33
On Tuesday Indigenous Peoples rejected the fabricated
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The Garfield High School Assessment Committee VS the Testocracy: We Know How to Run the Schools Better Than Billionaires
A teacher pushes against standradized testing.
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Chilean Robin Hood? Artist Known as “Papas Fritas” on Burning $500 Million Worth of Student Debt
You may know the adventures of Robin Hood and Zorro, outlaws fighting for the poor. Today we meet the newest member of that club, a Chilean activist who goes …
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My Speech to the Graduates: Don’t Listen to Graduation Speakers
A teacher advises, "Dedicate your life to something that matters to you because you have but one life and the pursuit of money and things will always prove hollow …
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Critical Pedagogy “Album Review”
Michael Demana created this video for Ashland University's “Critical Pedagogy” class. It pretends that Henry A. Giroux's book is an album by the band HG and the Progressives. The …
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The 60th Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education in the Shadow of “School Choice”
Glen Ford: The corporate education reform movement has exacerbated inequities in public schools in the name of civil rights.