Education & Youth

Last week, voters in Detroit elected a new mayor, Mike Duggan, to carry on the work of the emergency managers and governor in rebuilding a u201cnew Detroit.u201d

While many have commented on how accurate the 11-year old Feed is in its predictions of social networking and mobile technology, its dire predictions on the corporatization of education …

A new book 10 years in the making examines how many major US universities are drenched in the sweat, and sometimes the blood, of Africans brought to the US …

It seems telling that the most vocal people fervently endorsing many elements of the reform agenda have either a political or economic stake in moving those policies forward.

New York School believed to be first to reject testing in grades K-2, principal and 90 percent of parents support boycott and hope it helps spark nationwide movement.

Pulling back from created other worlds, we are faced continually with moral dilemmasu2014often ones also involving children.

Chicago's restorative justice movement frames a future that is not solely about survival.

This interview was conducted at the McMaster Centre for Scholarship in the Public Interest's 2013 “War on Youth” Summer Institute, Summer 2013.

Like other corporations, the university system makes a killing off part time workers and in turn, we are in debt for life.

Religious fundamentalists on the Texas Education Agency's textbook review panels could set a new national standard.