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Chicago Teachers Turn Up the Heat on Rahm Emanuel (Video)
A strike before November? Teachers say they are ready for it.
Dozens of Philadelphia Public Schools on Chopping Block
Students, parents, teachers, rally against a proposed radical restructuring of the public school system.
Quebec Students Demand Education as a Right, Continue Strike
Thousands of students across Quebec continue their strike. More than 170,000 students are on strike. A deal that was tentatively agreed to by some of the student leadership over …
The Present and Future of the University: An Interview With David Theo Goldberg
In a wide-ranging conversation at McMaster University on March 15, 2012, Grace Pollock, the director of the Public Intellectuals Project, interviewed the internationally renowned race theorist David Theo Goldberg …
Youth in Revolt: The Plague of State-Sponsored Violence
A state of permanent war needs willing subjects to abide by its values.
Dangerous Pedagogy in the Age of Casino Capitalism and Religious Fundamentalism
It is crucial to develop educational approaches that reject a collapse of the distinction between market liberties and civil liberties.
Education as “Politically Contested Spaces”
We must stop conflating partisan and political.
Why Teaching People to Think for Themselves Is Repugnant to Religious Zealots and Rick Santorum
It is impossible to separate what we do in the classroom from the economic and political conditions that shape our work.
Book Burning in Arizona
There is more at work in the attack on ethnic studies than the rise of Tea Party politics and specific acts of censorship.
Universities Gone Wild: Big Money, Big Sports and Scandalous Abuse at Penn State
The desecration of public trust is all the more vile when the persons and institution in question have been assigned the stewardship of generations of youth.