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Discipline With Dignity: Oakland Classrooms Try Healing Instead of Punishment
As executive director of Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth, Fania Davis sees programs like hers as part of the way to end the school-to-prison pipeline.
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Burned, Bombed, Beaten – Education Under Attack Worldwide
In a troubling twist to modern warfare, public squares are now common sites of protest and violence, while hospitals treating the wounded are considered fair game. But perhaps the …
JOBS, Again
The 21st century United States needs many services the private sector doesn't provide so well, such as preschool and post-secondary education and health and dental care.
The Test Boycott Is On!
The testing boycott is official! Today, two Chicago teachers are refusing to distribute the Illinois Standards Achievement Tests (ISAT), even though Chicago Public Schools CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett has said …
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Modeling the Education They Want To Be: The Great Chicago Teachers Union Transformation
Micah Uetricht's ‘Strike for America: Chicago Teachers Against Austerity’ relates the stirring transformation of the Chicago Teachers Union into a democratically organized force for social justice.
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Know Who Is “Cashing In on Kids“
A collaboration between the group In the Public Interest and the American Federation of Teachers offers progressive education activists a new resource for pushing back against efforts to turn …
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One Way to Help Solve America’s Major Curriculum Problem
It's impossible to understand a dynamic, systemically integrated world using a static, fragmented curriculum.
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Inequality on Campus
As the US begins to grapple with the issue of growing economic inequality, it should not ignore the widening income gap on American college campuses.
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Creating a Pedagogy in Common: Excerpt From “Toward a New Common School Movement“
The authors of “Toward a New Common School Movement” argue for defending a not-yet-realized “public” in public schools.
Richard Wolff: Enterprise Structure Is Key to the Shape of a Post-Capitalist Future
Richard Wolff discusses his conviction that making the transition from capitalism to socialism requires a deliberate critique of workplace organization.