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Education & Youth
Howard Zinn, “Finishing School for Pickets” and Paula Giddings, “Learning Insubordination“
An excerpt from a 1960 Howard Zinn piece and Paula Giddings looking back on Zinn.
NYU Professor Barred From Researching in UAE, Where NYU Has a Campus
The travel ban sheds light on a deeper controversy encircling Saadiyat Island: labor conditions and teaching and learning conditions are connected.
The Need for Wisdom
The University of Everywhere, however, could just as easily be called the University of Nowhere because it exists only on the internet.
Whither Public Education?
The author presents a critique of neoconservative education policy, arguing it is based on three fallacies.
Teacher’s Image Takes a Hit in America
Something about our fast-paced, super consumerist society seems to have robbed the teaching vocation the respect it deserves, disposing that once concrete and tender human relationship to a matter …
Charter Schools: the Segregation of Latino and African-American Students
The segregation of ELL students from the mainstream classroom creates a separation between English speaking students and bilingual students.
The Green Ninja
Can we raise a generation of green kids? “The Green Ninja” says we can.
America’s Military Academies Are Seriously Flawed
Today's US military likes to fancy itself a collection of warriors, but America is not Sparta.
“Ban the Box” Campaigns Seek to End Discrimination Against Formerly Incarcerated College Applicants
The box is more likely to dissuade, if not outright bar, people of color than their white counterparts.
“Voices of a People’s History,” 10th Anniversary Edition Features Testing Resistance MAP Boycott!
Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove's updated primary source companion to “A People's History of the United States” includes Amber Kudla's anti-standardized testing graduation speech and Jesse Hagopian's reflection on …