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Henry A. Giroux | Data Storms and the Tyranny of Manufactured Forgetting
"As historical memory is erased, critical thought is crushed by a sterile instrumental rationality under the guise of mass information and a data storm."
Why Does the Obama Administration Keep Getting It Wrong on Education Policy?
Albert Shanker Institute executive director Leo Casey talks about community schools, public education, teacher evaluation, standardized testing, Common Core, the political dimension of corporate education
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A Rededication to Public Education
We need to put the public back in public education and be clear about our goals and the best way to achieve them.
Meet Andy Shallal, DC’s Most Progressive Mayoral Candidate
Iraqi-born artist, activist, businessman and progressive candidate for mayor Andy Shallal talks about his hopes and plans for Washington.
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UIC Faculty Rekindle Fight for Public Education With Historic Strike
This week, the union made good on its threat: Faculty members walked out of their offices on Tuesday morning, fanning out into picket lines across campus.
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Dumbing Down America: The Decline of Education in the US as Seen From Down Under
The American electorate fails to realize it must unite to solve a skyrocketing educational cost and student debt problem that other nations solved a hundred or more years ago, …
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Public Education in the Crosshairs – ALEC’s Private Scholarship Tax Credits
ALEC's model bills for scholarship tax credits for private school tuition harm the people they are purported to help.
When Schools Become Dead Zones of the Imagination
Schools have increasingly become testing hubs that de-skill teachers and disempower students.
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How Would American Indians Teach US History?
In these excerpts from Four Arrows' Teaching Truly: A Curriculum to Indigenize Mainstream Education, history is viewed as an opportunity to learn those truth-seeking stories that sustain a society.
Philadelphia Slashes Schools Budget While State Spends $400 Million on New Prisons
Philadelphia communities fighting back against planned cuts that disproportionally impact low income and African American communities.