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Dumbing Down Teachers: Attacking Colleges of Education in the Name of Reform
We must take matters of education seriously if we are going to survive as a democracy.
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In Defense of Public School Teachers in a Time of Crisis
We need a new language for understanding public education as formative for democratic institutions.
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A Society Consumed by Locusts: Youth in the Age of Moral and Political Plagues
The deteriorating state of American youth may be the most serious challenge the US faces in the 21st century.
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On Pop Clarity: Public Intellectuals and the Crisis of Language
It is nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind. - James Baldwin
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Howard Zinn, A Public Intellectual
What was so moving and unmistakable about Howard was his humility, his willingness to listen, his refusal of all orthodoxies and his sense of respect for others.
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Schools and the Pedagogy of Punishment
Students are being miseducated, criminalized and arrested through a form of penal pedagogy in lockdown schools that resemble prisons
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Youth Beyond the Politics of Hope
The conditions produced by the financial crisis have resulted in the foreclosure of not only millions of family homes, but also the future of young people.
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Review of Henry Giroux’s: Youth in a Suspect Society
The book is, above all else, an attempt to interrogate the increasingly hostile future our society is preparing, with no sense of shame or irony, for its next tenants …
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Obama’s View of Education Is Stuck in Reverse
Educational reform for the Obama administration “starts with testing and ends with data and more testing.”
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Conversation With Henry Giroux: Let Us Make Haste While We Can (Part II)
A war is being waged on today's younger generation, pillaging everything they have to offer, in deference to a rabid model of market fundamentalism and neoliberalism.