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Education
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The Important Things Standardized Tests Don’t Measure
Responsibility for evaluating learner performance should be returned to those best positioned to do it: Classroom teachers.
How Does Obama’s Education Budget Stack Up Against US Citizens’ Priorities?
Is Obama's proposal of steering 2 percent of the federal budget to education enough?
Henry A. Giroux | Higher Education and the Promise of Insurgent Public Memory
The university has become a social institution that not only fails to address inequality, but contributes to a growing class division.
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Would You Like Some Crushing Debt With That Degree?
Wall Street-style predatory capitalism has taken over our education system, and it's absolutely devastating a whole generation of young people.
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Underpaying Adjuncts Hurts Full-Time Professors and Students Too
Adjunct faculty will participate in a nationwide walkout on February 25 to demand better pay and benefits.
When a Wildlife Rehab Center Regulates Charter Schools: Inside the Wild World of Charter Regulation
Charter school “authorizers” are charged with making sure schools can be trusted with kids and with public money. Problem is, many lack the tools to do the job.
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The Conservative Attempt to Rewrite the United States’ Progressive History
Call your local representative today to tell them that you support AP US history.
Department of Education Sides Against Students to Feather Its Own Bed in For-Profit Corinthian Colleges Debacle
Like homeowners who served to foam the runway for banks, students continue to be cannon-fodder for predatory lenders.
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Peter McLaren: Putting Radical Life in Schools
Schools can and must become zones of popular de-indoctrination and democratic re-imagination.
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Good Money After Bad, Wisconsin GOP Demands More For-Profit Schools
For-profit school lobbyists are some of the biggest spenders in Wisconsin campaigns. According to the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign, the groups funneled $10 million into state elections between 2003 and …