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Charter Schools Gone Wild: Study Finds Widespread Fraud, Mismanagement and Waste
When it comes to transparency, charter schools insist they have the same rights to privacy as any other private enterprise.
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Mapping the Chinese Conquest of the Planet: Exterminatory Worlds, Then and Now
In 2014, what strange pleasures — and horrors — can be found in rising adult fears in an exterminatory world?
AFN Chief Resigns Over First Nations Education Act
National Chief Shawn Atleo was forced by popular pressure and a brewing chiefs' revolt to resign, the first time a national chief has resigned since the creation of the …
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.