Education

It is nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind. - James Baldwin

What was so moving and unmistakable about Howard was his humility, his willingness to listen, his refusal of all orthodoxies and his sense of respect for others.

Students are being miseducated, criminalized and arrested through a form of penal pedagogy in lockdown schools that resemble prisons

Educational reform for the Obama administration “starts with testing and ends with data and more testing.”

A war is being waged on today's younger generation, pillaging everything they have to offer, in deference to a rabid model of market fundamentalism and neoliberalism.

How is it possible to imagine a more equitable transformation in government and economics without a simultaneous transformation in culture, consciousness, social identities and values?

Unless Duncan is willing to reinvent himself, the national agenda he will develop for education will leave a lot more kids behind than it helps.

Academic Chronis Polychroniou interviews Henry Giroux, a professor in English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University.

The “war on youth” not only attempts to erase the democratic legacies of the past, but disavows any commitment to the future.

While there is an ongoing discussion about what shape the military-industrial complex will take under an Obama presidency, what is often left out of this analysis is the intrusion …