Latest Education
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Veiga: NYC students plan citywide school boycott
Turning up the pressure for integration
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Paoluzzi: Stop celebrating neoliberal academia: boycott your graduation
Graduation ceremonies at UK universities are a clear representation of their financialized mentality, valuing profit over quality education
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Espinosa: Fighting with pens in Rojava’s “war of education”
Rojava’s revolutionary education system is built around a homegrown curriculum promoting gender equality, ecology and social and cultural inclusivity.
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Hollar: Media Turn Support for Public Schools Into Opposition to Children of Color
It’s a classic charter (and voucher) argument that manages to paint the policy as having only the best interests of the poor at heart, even as it promotes inequality by offering access to a few lifeboats rather than repairing the ship
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Schuhrke: Why 15,000 Indiana Teachers Just Walked Off the Job
After making waves in West Virginia, Oklahoma, Arizona, Kentucky, North Carolina and beyond, the Red for Ed movement has now spread to Indiana
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Targ: The Crisis of Public Education in Indiana
“Red for Ed” is the slogan that animated 15,000 teachers, students, and trade unionists to attend a huge rally at the Statehouse in Indianapolis, November 19
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Armstrong: Arkansas Teachers Went On Strike
Arkansas teachers and students face a well-funded school privatization effort backed by major corporate entities with influence that stretches from the Governor’s office to the state Board of Education to the University of Arkansas
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Marin: Venezuela Teachers’ Strike
‘Those of Us Who Continue to Teach Do So Out of Love’
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Barber: The Failure of Higher Education: A Tale of Two Diplomas
For the majority of students in the United States, black students in particular, education has never meant anything more than a training to stay in one’s place
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Madeloni: Fight for Racial Justice Fuels Little Rock Educator Strike Preparations
The site of struggle to defend unions and public education has moved quickly from Chicago to Little Rock
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Anderson: Prelude to a Socioeconomic Class Analysis of/in Academia (as a Precursor to Classlessness)
Working class academics, including (and perhaps especially) at the undergraduate level, have a vastly different educational experience than aspiring scholars coming from a higher socioeconomic status
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Davis: Speaking up in Ann Arbor
Making a case for the urgency of defending academic freedom
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Barber: School secession movement drives re-segregation
Re-segregation is on the rise in American schools
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Gates: “This Is a Win for Our City”
Chicago Teachers Celebrate End of Historic Strike After 11 Days
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Madhukar: High-Tech School Surveillance Is Harming Students of Color
When schools introduce these technologies, they open the to door to labeling students’ normal thoughts, words, and movements as dangerous — and potentially involving law enforcement
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Hylton: Colombia Diary: Higher Ed Under Threat
The coming weeks will feature massive student protests and marches across Colombia
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Ryder: The game of musical chairs
I’ve always considered Musical Chairs to be a metaphor for the world we live in. I’d like to think that we all might learn to play by a new set of rules where everyone gets a fair share and nobody gets hurt
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There must be a relationship of mutual respect between teacher and student and a sense that both are part of a larger project, the liberation of humanity from the shackles of capitalism
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Allyn: New Mexico, Free College Tuition Regardless Of Income
New Mexico Unveils Plan To Give Students Free College Tuition Regardless Of Income
ZMag Education
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Coles: Education, Jobs and Capitalism
American capitalism has a hate-love relationship with the nation’s schools
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Sidhu: School Vouchers: The Silver Bullet of America’s Education
In instances where school vouchers have been partially adopted, the pedagogical results have been insignificant, if not shoddy
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Chomsky: Education and Economics
Take the very nature of corporations. They’re based on what’s called “limit liability,” meaning if you’re a partner in a corporation and the corporation carries out mass murder, the participants aren’t guilty of it. So corporate mass slaughter is a huge phenomenon
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Now the Trump administration wants to further expand the use of vouchers by creating a $20 billion school choice program. According to The Century Foundation, a think tank dedicated to reducing inequality, Trump’s plan would increase segregation in public schools
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U.S historians have no doubt been having a field day with Trump’s reported clueless comments on U.S. history earlier this year. The president’s moronic take on the nation’s past was front-page news in liberals’ and academics’ favorite newspaper, the New York Times
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It is fair to say that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 brought the United States into the 20th Century. That comprehensive law made it illegal to engage in racial, gender, and national origin discrimination in public accommodations--like hotels and restaurants--and employment. Yet, the law says very little about what exactly constitutes discrimination
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Friesen: Why The Guns-on-Campus Debate Matters
As of August 1, 2016, a new law allows concealed handguns in college and university buildings. We’re about to find out what difference guns in the classroom make in the relationships of students, faculty and staff—and in the character of higher education.
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Dolan: It’s Time to Get Cops Out of Schools
There’s only one way to make sure no more young girls are body-slammed by uniformed officers
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Winslow: Teachers Hold Walk-in Protests in 30 Cities
The walk-in tactic was inspired by North Carolina teachers, who organized a series of these grassroots protests across the state in 2013 against education cuts. Other teacher unions soon picked up the idea
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Essif: Why Libraries Matter More Than Ever in the Age of Google
If you were airdropped blindfolded into a strange town and given nothing but a bus ticket, to where would you ride that bus? You might be surprised to learn that there’s only one good answer, and that’s the public library
Blogs on Education
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Simpson: The Chicago Neighborhood Schools Fair: Colorful balloons and courageous resistance
"I'm proud that this Neighborhood Schools Fair came from neighborhood...
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Wittner: When Education is a Business
To what extent is education corrupted when it becomes intertwined...
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Simpson: Why is Corporate America fanning the flames of violence in Chicago
“At times like this when CPS is making an attempt...
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Simpson: Chicago’s deadly border crossings: lives in the balance
There are no barbed wire adorned border walls. You won’t...
Video Education
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Wolff: On Economic & Business Schools
Interview about the state of economic and business education in universities today
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Kiriakou: Harvard Picks Torture
The goal is to ruin you permanently, to make an example of you so that other people don't take your cue and blow the whistle on waste, fraud, abuse, and illegality
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Chomsky: Postmodernism an Instrument of Power
Interview about postmodernism, how it is an instrument of power and why academics embrace it
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Goodman: Voices from Puerto Rico’s Students Leading an Anti-Austerity Movement
Puerto Rican college students have been waging a series of demonstrations to protest austerity measures they say endanger the higher education system
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Varoufakis: Academic Freedom and Policymaking
On the relation between academic freedom and policy making in the corridors of (European) power
Audio Education
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Finkelstein: Academic Freedom 9/9
In Defense of Academic Freedom, Rockefeller Chapel, University of...
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In Defense of Academic Freedom, Rockefeller Chapel, University of Chicago...
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In Defense of Academic Freedom, Rockefeller Chapel, University of Chicago...
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Mearsheimer: Academic Freedom 5/9
In Defense of Academic Freedom, Rockefeller Chapel, University of Chicago...
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Bilgrami: Academic Freedom 3/9
Dr. Akeel Bilgrami, Johnsonian Professor of Philosophy and Director of...