It is crucial to develop educational approaches that reject a collapse of the distinction between market liberties and civil liberties.
Education & Youth
We must stop conflating partisan and political.
It is impossible to separate what we do in the classroom from the economic and political conditions that shape our work.
There is more at work in the attack on ethnic studies than the rise of Tea Party politics and specific acts of censorship.
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.
Too many academics for too long have turned their backs on addressing important social issues.
Student protests have risen in the wake of the government’s plans to make society pay for the economic crisis.
Students are recognizing that it is crucial to struggle for the university as a democratic public sphere.
“We need a wholesale revision of how a democracy both listens to and treats young people.”
Corporate power and money are unchecked as they privatize, deregulate and destroy all vestiges of public life.