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Communities Fight Back Against “Racist” DC School Closures
Rania Khalek: School closings in DC and across the country have not improved educational outcomes.
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Writing Professor Under Fire For Attack Against Republicans: On the “Free Exchange Of Ideas“
What “free exchange of ideas” can exist in a society with such extreme disparities of power? And what can the MSU professor criticized for a classroom attack on Republicans …
The Perennial Bowel Movement
The u201cback to the basicsu201d movement is here, again. Doesnu2019t this remind you of the 1980s?
The Dark Future of American Education: A Consideration of MOOCs
A distinguished educator considers how Massive open online courses may be a distinct improvement over traditional classroom course and how they could be devastatingly inferior to those programs.
On Reinventing the Meaning of Politics and What Needs to Be Done
A global war to resurrect a sense of
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Public Education in the Crosshairs – ALEC’s Private Scholarship Tax Credits
ALEC's model bills for scholarship tax credits for private school tuition harm the people they are purported to help.
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Public Universities Ramp Up Aid for the Wealthy, Leaving the Poor Behind
Public universities have been shifting their aid, giving less to the poorest students and more to the wealthiest.
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The “Systematic Murder” of Philadelphia Public Schools
Philadelphia schools have turned into skeletons of their former selves and are woefully unprepared for the start of classes this year.
Threats of Violence and Hopes for Votes
With the new problem of joblessness (currently at 11.7 percent in Berlin), more and more people left to hunt work in other parts of Germany or elsewhere.
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Henry A. Giroux | Intellectuals as Subjects and Objects of Violence
Henry Giroux: Public intellectuals must use their resources to question the authoritarian forces of war, violence and privatization threatening the planet.