Education

In his work, Howard Zinn embodied a notion of agency that exhibited a fierce moral courage and a deep propensity for engaged social action.

Memories of the university as a citadel of democratic learning have been replaced by a university eager to define itself largely in economic terms.

Freire is one of the most important educators of the 20th century and is considered one of the most important theorists of “critical pedagogy.”

High stakes accountability and punishing modes of leadership, regardless of the damage they wreak on students and teachers, are now the only game in town when it comes to …

Any rigorous conception of youth must take into account the inescapable intersection of the personal, social, political and pedagogical embodied by young people.

We live at a time that might be appropriately called the age of the disappearing intellectual, a disappearance that marks with disgrace a particularly dangerous period in American history. …

America's political and economic elites have declared a war on working, middle-class and poor Americans. Now that war is coming to a head with the draconian cuts in education, …

Public schooling is more and more being shaped by a pedagogy of containment, security and conformity that undermines critical thought.

The United States' choice to deal with its financial crisis by further weakening public and higher education is devastating.

We must take matters of education seriously if we are going to survive as a democracy.