Education

Mainstream media, cued by corporate press releases, routinely claim that America's schools are markedly inferior to schools in other developed nations. The claim is part of an organized campaign …

Black students are more likely than other racial groups to be suspended from US public schools, even as preschoolers.

Children aren't playing in the garden anymore; instead they're filling in bubbles on worksheets.

Since the peak of the Great Society, on the first official Earth Day, captains of industry have engaged in a conspiracy to destroy the gains made for working people …

Academic standards for college athletes should be raised, and sports scholarship programs should be ended.

From Oregon to Minnesota, school is out unless teachers and communities are heard.

Big money from tax increases is supposed to help poor, English learners and foster kids.

Conservative media's incessant campaign to demonize the Common Core State Standards, often confined to the right-wing bubble, is now playing out in local politics.

Standardized testing in schools doesn't solve the education achievement gap and hurts schools.

University of Southern Maine student Meagan LaSala and professor Rachel Bouvier explain how cuts disproportionately target faculty and will trigger a decline in quality public education.