Education

The growing movement against corporate-style education reform comes together around the question: What are we for?

Baker Mitchell is a politically connected North Carolina businessman. Every year, millions of public education dollars flow through his chain of four charter schools to for-profit companies he controls.

Black prophetic fire, according to Cornell West can be summed up as a deep love for justice, love of the poor and working people and a love for black …

Noam Chomsky discusses education and indoctrination, the 1960s, the Powell memorandum, democracy, the creation of ISIS, the media and the way “capitalism” actually works in the United States.

Don Samuels received from several well-heeled national organizations and various people associated with Teach for America, which has been called a “political powerhouse” for its growing influence in policy …

Colleges are staging areas for economic success and personal prosperity. They should not create new barriers to entry.

Students who are alarmed to know they're not allowed to learn about civil dissent and protest have quite rationally chosen to protest.

After a county school board in Colorado proposed to rewrite the district's high school US history curriculum to stop teaching about civil disobedience, students and teachers have responded with …

Venture capitalists and for-profit firms are salivating over the exploding $788.7 billion market in K-12 education.

Democratic candidates need to make support for public education front-and-center of their campaigns.