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Truthout Interviews Featuring Adam Bessie and Dan Carino on Bill Gates, Graphic Journalism, and the Education Reform Hype Machine
Ted Asregadoo speaks to English Professor Adam Bessie and Graphic Journalist Dan Carino about Bill Gates' free-market education reform movement that emphasizes a more technocratic and quantitatively rigid curriculum.
Students Should Be Creative Innovators, Not Force-Fed Consumers of Status-Quo Knowledge
Unless students are empowered to help shape their own educations, and use their skills and energy to fight for justice and make their neighborhoods better places, there will be …
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How the #FergusonSyllabus Can Help Teachers Talk About Race and Rights on the First Day of School
Teachers and educators collect ideas and resources for how to talk about Ferguson with students of all ages.
A Teacher in Kabul
Zekerullah yearns for knowledge as well as justice, and he's willing to sacrifice for both.
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Elite Attackers of Public Schools Don’t Admit the Impact of Economic Inequality, Racism on Education
In the Progressive Pick book, ‘Badass Teachers Unite,’ Mark Naison points out that school reform policies scapegoat teachers and represent a brilliant tactic to avoid dealing with the real …
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“This Is a Test”: Educating to End the School-to-Grave-Pipeline in Ferguson and Beyond
When the schools reopen in Ferguson, teachers would do well to close up the jingoistic textbooks.
Big Dallas Plunder: Open Door to Wholesale School Privatization
Dallas business interests stacked the school board. Now, a rule change could open the door for wholesale school privatization.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: the Banksters Who Caused the Economy to Crash Are Raking in Record Profits, and More
The bankers who caused the economic crisis are raking in profits, and more.
The Con Artistry of Charter Schools
Once an effort to improve public education, the charter school movement has transformed into a money-making venture.
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Homeschooling for Critical Consciousness
Educator Jeffrey Nall explains why he and his wife, April, homeschool their children.