Latest Education

• Jones: West Virginia Teachers Strike Again

  Appear to Score Another Victory
• Mochaidean: West Virginia’s Ongoing, Anti-Capitalist Struggle

  Should West Virginia strike again, it will be because the working-class educators of this state have developed a burgeoning class-consciousness that was lit last year, and is now carried on in the ranks of its militant citizens
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  Winslow: L.A. Teachers Showed Us How It’s Done

  We've heard that strikes are outdated and don't work. We’ve been told that union democracy takes too long and is too messy to work on a large scale. The L.A. teachers strike should finally set those myths to rest
• Inouye: “This Was About the Survival of Public Education”

  LA Teachers Claim Victory After Week-Long Strike
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  Kolhatkar: The L.A. Teachers’ Strike Is About So Much More Than Wages

  Los Angeles teachers are telling the district and the world that their public schools have been deeply damaged by years of austerity
• Coles: Education, Jobs and Capitalism

  If we pose the question “how well are the nation’s schools serving US capitalism?” there is every reason to conclude that business leaders and organizations, despite their complaints, actually very much love the schools
• Blanc: Billionaires vs. LA Schools

  The Los Angeles teachers' strike isn't all about wages. At its core, the strike is a fight against a hostile takeover of public schools by the superrich
• Cruz: “Public Education Is Not Your Plaything”

  L.A. Teachers Strike Against Privatization & Underfunding
• Sacks: LA Teachers Go On Strike for First Time in 30 Years

  On Monday, the Los Angeles Unified School District teachers strike...
• Feingold: Battle Lines in U.S. Public Education War

  Superintendent Austin Beutner and his allies have made it clear they do not believe that the LA Unified School District in its current incarnation is worth investing in—or even preserving
• Myers: The rise of the student worker

  The student population today is unrecognisable from that of a generation or more ago. And it is central to any socialist project for the future
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  Monbiot: Advertising and academia

  By abetting the ad industry, universities are leading us into temptation, when they should be enlightening us
• Soltis: Georgia Denies Migrants Equal Access to Higher Education

  Educational policies that violate international human rights laws need to be repealed so that every young person, regardless of where they are born or what papers they have, has equal access to higher education
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  Giroux: The Language of Neoliberal Education

  Neoliberalism functions not simply as an economic model for finance capital but as a public pedagogy that operates through a diverse number of sites and platforms
• Granados: 50,000 teachers take over LA streets as union votes to strike

  All workers should stand in solidarity with UTLA members in their fight against the dismantling of public education and the privatization of our school district
• Queally: Union-Backed Strike a Win for Students

  "This is a victory for every educator who sees children getting short-changed by privatization and charter operators putting their business models over the needs of our students."
• Al-ali: The double standards applied to academic freedom

  The political right is not only cracking down on academic freedoms, but has started simultaneously to become a fierce advocate of an aggressively anti-intellectual freedom of speech
• Madeloni: Chicago Teachers Launch First Charter Strike in History

  This may be the first charter school strike in the country, but given the industry’s problems—and the fact that teachers and staff are finally getting organized—it won’t be the last
• Perez Jr.: Nation’s First Strike at Charter School

  The charter school strike offers a vivid illustration of how growing union influence and new political leadership might signal big changes for how charter schools operate in Chicago
• Shapiro: Homelessness in New York Public Schools

  One out of every 10 students lived in temporary housing during the last school year