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Rev Billy Exorcises Robobee from Harvard University
The Robobee lab in Harvard's School of Engineering and Applied Science is exorcised by New York's Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir, who are dressed up as queen …
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Ecuador’s Digital Agenda: Bridging the Digital Divide and Laying the Foundations for a Knowledge Economy
Certain sectors of the Ecuadoran government would like to become less dependent on natural resource extraction and instead create a digital- and knowledge-based economy.
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Brown’s Bittersweet Legacy
Public schools are more segregated today than they've been since 1968.
The Ivory Cage and the Ghosts of Academe: Labor and Struggle in the Edu-Factory
The energy dedicated to the university by students, staff and the public is harnessed to reproduce a hierarchical, commercialized, debt-driven institution.
When This Teacher’s Ethnic Studies Classes Were Banned, His Students Took the District to Court—and Won
The documentary “Precious Knowledge” tells the story of the high school seniors who became activists to save Tucson's ethnic studies classes.
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How George W. Bush Screwed This Generation of College Students
Every kid in the US could have a free public college education right now if George W. Bush hadn't been such a war monger.
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Henry A. Giroux | Neoliberalism’s War on Democracy
Four decades of neoliberal policies have resulted in an economic Darwinism that promotes privatization, commodification, free trade and deregulation, Henry Giroux writes in the introduction to his book.
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Act Now to Keep Students Safe
Seclusion or restraint for students is much more widely used in schools than you'd think, and it's endangering student health. The Keeping All Students Safe Act would outlaw the …
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Despite Community Pleas, Three Chicago Schools Slated for Privatization
The Chicago Board of Education has consistently voted to close schools or turn them over to private management - laying off most of the staff in the process - …
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Scathing Report Finds Rocketship, School Privatization Hurt Poor Kids
A new report by the Economic Policy Institute, documents the effects of both for-profit and non-profit charter schools that are taking over struggling public schools in Milwaukee.