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Do Obama Policies Help Baltimore Schools
Baltimore Activists say
Investors Seek to Profit From Privatizing Public Schools
Activists at Peopleu2019s Education Convention demand an end to excessive testing.
Learning to Hate Longhorn Football
One professor discusses how the million dollar industry of college football might be costing students the most.
Remembering Howard Zinn by Meditating on Teacher Unions and Tenure?
Howard Zinn would have turned 90 a couple of days ago. I have to imagine after reading and re-reading most of Zinn's works that if Zinn were alive today, …
Living, Loving Meaningfully: The Revolution Will Not Be Anti-Social
In an time when the political and personal are constantly colliding, sometimes the path to activism begins at home.
Corporations Try to Kill Community Colleges
Within a month I had free child care from the revolutionary Family Resource Center at City College of San Francisco, a small federal grant which covered my books and …
Race-Concious Admissions Policies Benefit Students and the Workforce, According to Social Scientists
A group of social scientists today filed a legal brief with the U.S. Supreme Court with research offering a deeper understanding of how a diverse educational environment benefits White …
Blaming the Mirror: Lolo Jones and US Public Education
P.L. Thomas explains that Lolo Jones and other female Olympians are not the problem, they are a reflection of what the American people have come to expect.
Think Tanks: The Invisible Hand of Policy
Do you know how to define a think tank? More importantly, do you know how much power they have in our lives?
Millenials Vs. Libertarianism
Calling yourself a libertarian today is a lot like wearing a mullet back in the 1980s. It sends a clear signal: business up front, party in the back.