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Citizens and Teachers Resist Massive Public School Closures in Philadelphia
Both students and parents are at a loss as to what will happen in September.
Chicago Fires More than 2,000 School Staff as Crippling Cuts Deepen
Austerity deepens in Chicago this year with the firing of more than 3,000 total school staff after closing 50 schools.
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School Data Profiteering
A new nonprofit called inBloom will collect information from student records and provide third-party for-profit companies access to students' data.
Schools and the New Jim Crow: An Interview With Michelle Alexander
How is mass incarceration affecting young people of color? Author Michelle Alexander helps explain.
Boots on Campus: Yale Flap Highlights Militarization of Academia
What can we do to stop the soft takeover of academia by the military?
The School Security America Doesn’t Need
Ending this cycle of armed fear and violence will require getting police out of the schools along with the whole battery of security state accessories.
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Why Not Ask Teachers How They Would Improve Our Schools?
Teachers need to have their voices heard as educational policy is being formed.
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How Renewable Energy Is Rescuing Schools from Budget Cuts
Educators across the country are finding millions of dollars in savings through cheap and simple forms of renewable energy.
The Finnish Alternative: Reclaiming Public Education From Corporate Reform
In our concluding episode, we take readers to Finland, in an extensive original interview with world-renowned education expert Pasi Sahlberg, director general of Centre of International Mobility and Cooperation …
A Democratic Country Should Put Public Education Before Corporate Profits
Schools are closing. Teachers are being laid off. State and local governments are cutting like crazy and Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin has released a report warning about the looming …