Education

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.

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.”