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Education
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The Right – and Wrong – Role for Teachers
Put lawyers, carpenters, baseball players, and surgeons in wrong roles, test them, and a likely conclusion will be that they're not particularly effective. So it is with teachers.
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Punishing Students for Who They Are, Not What They Do
In many schools, suspension rates are a reflection of the racial bias that keeps students of color from succeeding.
Public Education Fights for Its Life
Max Eternity: Austerity measures are eroding America's public school system.
Are School Closings Racist?
At the most basic level, thereu2019s the fact that decisions about African American communities are being made without their consent.
“Wisconsin Idea” Gone Bad at Kazakhstan’s Nazarbayev University
The story of UW Madison's ongoing Kazakhstan involvement stands as a case study of the contradictions inherent today's ‘global universities.’
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Immigration Reform Rallies Spread From Coast to Coast, and More
Yesterday, thousands rallied around our nation to urge Congress to enact comprehensive immigration reform.
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Public Schools, Private Agendas: Parent Revolution
New “Parent Revolution” out of California might have conservative ties that wish to attack teachers unions.
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Chicagoans Fight for Education and Against Standardized Testing
The fight against standardized testing and school closings is a fight for the standard of living for working people.
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Newark Students Defy Threats to Protest Attacks on Public Education
On Tuesday, up to 2,000 students from at least a dozen public high schools in Newark, New Jersey, walked out of class to protest years of budget cuts, school …
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Angela Davis, Freedom and the Politics of Higher Education
Angela Davis struggled bravely for decades to demonstrate that education is a form of political intervention.