Latest Education
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Yong: The Inevitable Evolution of Bad Science
A simulation shows how the incentives of modern academia naturally select for weaker and less reliable results
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Fuller: Heart-Breaking Stories from Academia
America Treats Most Faculty Like Peons, and the Results Are Not Pretty
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What happens when a history professor at Yale opposes a grad union but doesn’t know her history?
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Goldberg: This Professor Was Fired for Saying ‘Fuck No’ in Class
The misuse of sexual-harassment policies by pusillanimous college administrators is creating a campus panic
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Should you ever decide to prioritize student learning over the profits of your campaign donors, feel free to reach out to me and the principals I was elected to represent
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Street: Bob Kerrey, Fulbright University, and the Neoliberal Erasure of History
The crimes of the American Empire continue to be committed beneath the airbrushing cover of the reigning Western media and intellectual culture
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Friesen: Why the guns-on-campus debate matters for American higher education
As of Aug. 1, 2016, a new law allows concealed...
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Winslow: Portland Teachers Expose Lead in Schools
Periodic lead testing showed the presence of lead in Portland schools’ drinking water back in 2001. Between 2010 and 2012, the district found unsafe levels of lead in 47 schools
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Lund: Pedagogy of the Oppressor
The bureaucrats of education, personificated in Aurelio Nuño, as all personifications of the Capital, naturalize violence and seek to spread the message that human lives are not worth crying for
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Goldrick-Rab: To cut costs, college students are buying less food and even going hungry
Universities and colleges must do more to identify and deal with the problem of on-campus food insecurity
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Giroux: The Violence of Forgetting
What I have called the violence of organized forgetting signals how contemporary politics are those in which emotion triumphs over reason, and spectacle over truth, thereby erasing history
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The incident is only the latest in which officials at UC Irvine and other major universities around the country have taken harsh measures against pro-Palestinian activists
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Sanchez: What Happened to the Civil Rights Movement After 1965? Don’t Ask Your Textbook
In classrooms across the country, guided by the official textbooks and curricula, students learn a version of the Civil Rights Movement that leaves its lessons in the past
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Winslow: Teachers Take On Student Discipline
Teachers and students meet to discuss the behavior and the root problems that might cause students to act out—such as stress, anxiety, or problems at home
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Schwalbe: Things My Students Don’t Know
One of the discussion exercises I use in my course...
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Ford: Authoritarianism Means Never Having to Apologize over Spilled Milk
If we want to build a world where administrators can’t treat students as if they’re their property over a carton of free milk, then we should consider alternatives such as democratic schooling
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Burley: Inside the growing movement against campus militarization
For the student union, this will be just a piece of a larger set of demands to reshape the college’s priorities in order to align with a more multi-racial, working-class base
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Chomsky: Anti-Intellectualism, Terrorism, and Elections in Contemporary Education
Washington DC based History Teacher Dan Falcone and New York...
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Berkshire: Boston to Protestings Students: You’re Not Worth it
The students who’ve been protesting this spring may not use words like “portfolio district” or even “education reform,” but they are fluent in the language of diminishing opportunity
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Chomsky: The Battle for the Soul of American Higher Education
Student Protest, the Black Lives Matter Movement, and the Rise of the Corporate University
ZMag Education
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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
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Wittner: The $7 Million University President
Despite repeated complaints about Jackson from faculty and students, RPI’s board of trustees has invariably expressed its total confidence in her. This unwavering support appears to be based not only on Jackson’s fundraising prowess, but on the corporate approach that she and the board share
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Woodall: Philadelphia Students Strike to Support Teachers
On Monday, the SRC voted to cast aside the expired Philadelphia Federation of Teachers (PFT) contract and require teachers to begin contributing to the cost of their health insurance premiums on December 15
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“The corporate/political influence on Bense’s PSAC is blatant and unapologetic,” say members of the FSU Progress Coalition, a bloc of students, faculty, and campus organizations opposed to Thrasher’s candidacy and the current search process
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Breslin: Standardized Testing and the Third Reich
Teachers are morally conflicted by the utter mindlessness and the coarsening effect of what they are forced to put children through. They cannot even imagine the kind of mentality of an Education Secretary of a modern civilized nation who could inflict such untold damage on a generation of children
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Rosenberg: Mismanagement, Abuse in Charter Schools
The predictable perils of turning education into a poorly regulated business
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Bradshaw: Exclusion and Disability
Those at the top of the U.S. economic pyramid continue to benefit from the economic and social exclusion of disabled people.
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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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
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Barlowe: “Another Yale is Possible”
Students Confront Racism at Ivy League School
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Giroux: On the Struggle for a Cohesive Left
Interview on the failures of the liberal class, the limitations of our existing commercial/corporate media structure, and the need for alternative approaches to education
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...