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![Howard Zinn speaks during the People Speak ASCAP Music Cafe performance held during the 2009 Sundance Music Festival on January 22, 2009 in Park City, Utah.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2011/01/GettyImages-84412860-400x300.jpg)
Remembering Howard Zinn, Once Again
In his work, Howard Zinn embodied a notion of agency that exhibited a fierce moral courage and a deep propensity for engaged social action.
![College graduates](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2011/01/shutterstock_57140281b-400x300.jpg)
Beyond the Swindle of the Corporate University: Higher Education in the Service of Democracy
Memories of the university as a citadel of democratic learning have been replaced by a university eager to define itself largely in economic terms.
![Mayor Michael Bloomberg speaks at the FUV Gala. Gotham Hall, May 5, 2010.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2010/12/4583168723_af25fb6883_o-e1529530895167-400x300.jpg)
Selling Out New York City’s Public Schools: Mayor Bloomberg, David Steiner and the Politics of Corporate “Leadership”
Politicians, anti-public intellectuals and conservative-leaning media pundits no longer ask what kind of education is needed in a democratic society.
![A monument to Paulo Freire in front of the Ministy of Education in Brazil.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2010/11/Monument_for_Paulo_Freire-e1529532169853-400x300.jpg)
Lessons to Be Learned From Paulo Freire as Education Is Being Taken Over by the Mega Rich
Freire is one of the most important educators of the 20th century and is considered one of the most important theorists of “critical pedagogy.”
![New NYC schools chancellor Cathleen P. Black listens to students inside PS 329 on December 13, 2010, in Brooklyn, New York. Black, the chairwoman of Hearst Magazines, will formerly begin as NYC Chancellor on January 2, 2011.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2010/11/GettyImages-107984364-400x300.jpg)
Business Culture and the Death of Public Education: The Triumph of Management Over Leadership
Management divorced from leadership privatizes hope, deskills teachers and treats students as consumers.
![Bill Gates speaks during a press conference at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, January 25, 2008.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2010/10/2297194352_f88f3626e2_o-400x300.jpg)
When Generosity Hurts: Bill Gates, Public School Teachers and the Politics of Humiliation
High stakes accountability and punishing modes of leadership, regardless of the damage they wreak on students and teachers, are now the only game in town when it comes to …
![Memories of Hope in the Age of Disposability](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2010/09/5143411575_8c37dc2cc0_o-400x300.jpg)
Memories of Hope in the Age of Disposability
Any rigorous conception of youth must take into account the inescapable intersection of the personal, social, political and pedagogical embodied by young people.
![Tearing Away at Public Education](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2010/06/4773511311_c76d935c44_o-400x300.png)
Gutting Public Education: Neoliberalism and the Politics of Opportunism
America's political and economic elites have declared a war on working, middle-class and poor Americans. Now that war is coming to a head with the draconian cuts in education, …
![Education Secretary Arne Duncan addresses the opening session of the first federal Bullying Prevention Summit August 11, 2010 in Washington, DC.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2010/06/GettyImages-103340986-400x300.jpg)
Why Duncan’s Corporate-Based Schools Can’t Deliver an Education That Matters
Public schooling is more and more being shaped by a pedagogy of containment, security and conformity that undermines critical thought.
![Teacher clears chalk board](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2010/06/shutterstock_1054012019b-400x300.jpg)
Teachers Without Jobs and Education Without Hope
The United States' choice to deal with its financial crisis by further weakening public and higher education is devastating.