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Education
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Stanford’s Coal Divestment: Meet Two Students – and One President – Who Made It Happen
The movement to persuade schools to divest from fossil fuels has taken off around the country. Meet a few people who helped make it happen at Stanford.
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Children’s Rights Groups Urge Defense Program to Stop Giving School Cops Military Hardware
Among the military hardware requested by school police were anti-mine vehicles, M-16s, ammo, grenade launchers.
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Koch Foundation Proposal to College: Teach Our Curriculum, Get Millions
Documents show group sought control over hiring at Florida State.
Are Ecology/Biology Professors Obligated to Lie to Their Students About Their Future on Planet Earth?
I have sought refuge within my own life span with the default rationale. We all have.
K-5 Students Deserve a Quality STEM Education, Not Human Rights Violations
Children around the world deserve a quality education without the fear of being abducted, recruited for and coerced into armed combat.
Valdemar W. Setzer on the Obsolescence of Education
My impression is that education is getting worse, and one of the main causes for this is the use of electronic media.
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The Big Winners From Sweden’s For-Profit “Free” Schools Are Companies, Not Pupils
Since their inception, free schools have been subject to research, primarily concerned with two issues: student attainment and educational inequality.
On My Son’s First Day of Kindergarten: OurSchoolsAreNotFailing.org Organizes Communities to Defend Their Schools From NCLB
It's time for the voices of parents, teachers and students to be heard and respected.
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Twelve Theses on Education’s Future in the Age of Neoliberalism and Terrorism
The profit-driven goals of neoliberal education policies are antithetical to progressive goals to educate productive participants in democratic culture.
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If Only American Kids Could Eat School Lunches Like They Do in France
Students eat veal marinated with mushrooms and broccoli followed by a cucumber and tomato salad; for dessert, an apple tart.