Education

The censorship, banned curriculums and banned books in Arizona, are subject to much spin, which often lacks a grasp of the bigger and more ominous picture. These actions in …

It is crucial to develop educational approaches that reject a collapse of the distinction between market liberties and civil liberties.

We must stop conflating partisan and political.

Teachers in Seattle high schools are refusing to administer a mandatory test, in defiance of public school and union policy.

Too many academics for too long have turned their backs on addressing important social issues.

Student protests have risen in the wake of the government's plans to make society pay for the economic crisis.

Corporate power and money are unchecked as they privatize, deregulate and destroy all vestiges of public life.

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“Theory needs to be rigorous and accessible, and it needs to address not merely the outer limits of disciplinary scholarship but also important social problems.”

(Photo: _Davo_) Henry Louis Gates Jr., the famed African-American literary scholar and director of the Du Bois Institute at Harvard University, recently reflected the following in an …