Education

“The United States of Energy” was a colorful series of lessons on the advantages of coal, aimed at 4th-graders, and sponsored by Big Coal. Here's how educators and activists …

Is a move toward privatization behind the turning over of Newark, New Jersey, public school buildings to charter school companies, investigators are asking.

As executive director of Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth, Fania Davis sees programs like hers as part of the way to end the school-to-prison pipeline.

In a troubling twist to modern warfare, public squares are now common sites of protest and violence, while hospitals treating the wounded are considered fair game. But perhaps the …

The 21st century United States needs many services the private sector doesn't provide so well, such as preschool and post-secondary education and health and dental care.

The testing boycott is official! Today, two Chicago teachers are refusing to distribute the Illinois Standards Achievement Tests (ISAT), even though Chicago Public Schools CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett has said …

Micah Uetricht's ‘Strike for America: Chicago Teachers Against Austerity’ relates the stirring transformation of the Chicago Teachers Union into a democratically organized force for social justice.

A collaboration between the group In the Public Interest and the American Federation of Teachers offers progressive education activists a new resource for pushing back against efforts to turn …

It's impossible to understand a dynamic, systemically integrated world using a static, fragmented curriculum.

As the US begins to grapple with the issue of growing economic inequality, it should not ignore the widening income gap on American college campuses.