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Public Schools
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The Calamity of the Disappearing School Libraries
School libraries are being neglected, defunded, repurposed, abandoned and closed.
Physical Education Takes a Hit: Schools’ Emphasis on Testing Is Making Kids Sick
Since the passage of the No Child Left Behind Act in 2001, 44 percent of school administrators admit that they've cut physical education or recess to focus on test …
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Boston School Bus Drivers Battle Racism and Privatization
This particular union marks the spot where organized labor meets oppressed and marginalized people where they are.
The Fight Against High-Stakes Testing: A Civil Rights Movement
Teacher and author Jesse Hagopian talks about the fight against high-stakes testing.
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Nine Billionaires Are About to Remake New York’s Public Schools
An investigation reveals how a group of hedge funders are about to get exactly what they paid for.
The Fight for Universal Pre-K: New York Charts a Checkered Path Toward Equal Early Education
New York City mayor Bill de Blasio touted universal pre-kindergarten as a way to fight inequality. But the program shows inequalities of its own.
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Abandoning the K-12 School System: Listening to Our Children and Thinking for Ourselves
Progressive parent Jeffrey Nall explains that he and his wife, April, abandoned the K-12 education system for their children because of its promotion of obedience and conformity - and …
The Big Money Behind California’s Tenure Lawsuit
A bevy of venture capitalists, charter investors and Obama administration officials invested in the education reform agenda materialize as part of the swirling, multimillion-dollar brew of the Vergara lawsuit..
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Brown’s Bittersweet Legacy
Public schools are more segregated today than they've been since 1968.
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Milking Public Education
A Teach For America teacher grows leery of the role of charter schools.