Education & Youth

Alexander says the biases that led to Martinu2019s death and let his killer go free are deeply embedded in U.S. society and in the criminal justice system itself.

Over the last two months, activists and civil leaders have been protesting extreme Right-wing policies in North Carolina; Senate Democrats tried to restore lower student loan interest rates, but …

On the last Sunday of May, I was on the campus of Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York. I stood in the back of a crowd of a few …

Defined by their appetite, the Zombies our education system is producing are hollow people, easily led - and easily misled.

Community leaders fear rise in gun violence will result from cuts to summer youth programs in Toronto's poor and under-serviced neighborhoods

In this interview, Carol Becker explains how she also views administrators within institutions such as universities as public intellectuals who can help empower and mobilize future generations of young …

School closures around the country have been justified by rationales of budget necessity and improvements in education outcomes, but in Chicago as elsewhere communities see no cost savings and …

Giroux writes on pedagogy and fundamentalism in his book, “America's Education Deficit and the War on Youth.”

How is mass incarceration affecting young people of color? Author Michelle Alexander helps explain.

Activists say national union leadership needs to give more support to Black and Latino working class families fighting school closures.