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Education

Obama’s Betrayal of Public Education? Arne Duncan and the Corporate Model of Schooling
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.

Henry Giroux: Rethinking the Promise of Critical Education
Academic Chronis Polychroniou interviews Henry Giroux, a professor in English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University.

Disposable Youth in a Suspect Society
The “war on youth” not only attempts to erase the democratic legacies of the past, but disavows any commitment to the future.

Against the Militarized Academy
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 …

Obama and the Promise of Education
The Obama administration will fail badly if it does not connect the current financial and credit crisis to the crisis of democracy and its poisonous undoing by commanding market …