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Education
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.
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With Truce at the UT Factory, Time to Face Tough Choices
A truce seems to have been negotiated in the long-running skirmish between the University of Texas and its conservative critics.
Flow Chart Exposes Common Core’s Myriad Corporate Connections
Morna McDermott has mapped the Common Core State Standard Initiative's corporate connections in a chart that illustrates the corporate takeover of public education.
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A Quiz on America’s Core Curriculum
How much do you really know about the core curriculum that American students are taught?
Tens of Thousands March Against Mexico School Privatization
Teachers blockade downtown Mexico City to protest education reforms they say is harmful to public schools.
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India’s Depreciating Currency: Why the Panic?
Paul Krugman: The rupee might be plunging fast, but what is causing panic?
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State Failures, National Models and the Perpetuation of Educational Injustice
Corporations' dominance of education policy results in more segregation and less education.
Juan González: Growing Charter School Chain Suspends Special Needs Kids in Bid to Raise Test Scores
Juan Gonzu00e1lez discusses his reports for the New York Daily News about how one of the New York Cityu2019s fastest-growing chains of charter schools, Success Academy, has far higher …
The ‘Holy War’ in Detroit
The voters of Detroit and Michigan repealed a draconian and racist law that strips all public officials of power and authority in only Michiganu2019s Black cities and school districts. …