Latest Education

• Chesler: Making American Schools Less Great Again

  Teachers like me will be stepping out of our classrooms not because we don’t want to teach, but because we do
• Bryant: A Warning to #RedForEd Movement Everywhere

  A warning is coming from teachers in Sacramento who are threatening to walk off the job over alleged violations of their collective bargaining agreement with the district
• Reichman: Academic Freedom at Risk

  As higher education faces an increasingly dire crisis of underfunding, we look at one of the consequences of this crisis: the growing threat to academic freedom
• Pierre: The Real College Admissions Scandal

  Wealthy families have rigged college admissions for generations, but they want you to blame affirmative action
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  Baker: The Real College Admissions Scandal Is Structural Inequality

  Inequality was not a natural outcome of the market and technology — it was manufactured by design
• Parsons: Organizing against Koch influence on college campuses

  Interview on how students, faculty, and community members nationwide are joining forces to build power, promote transparency, and limit corporate influence at the university level
• Pizzigati: When Dorms Mimic Mansions

  In a deeply unequal America, a deeply unequal system of higher education
• Toldson: Cheating, Bribes & Lies

  DOJ Charges Dozens of Rich Parents & Coaches in College Admission Scandal
• Urbain: Jared Kushner is Poster Boy for Elite Universities’ Pay to Play Scandal

  The scandal of parents paying to cheat their children’s way into elite US universities has put a harsh spotlight on the ultra-competitive college admissions process, in which the haves hold a massive advantage over the have-nots
• Burnette II: Teachers Asked to Swallow Concessions to Get Pay Hikes

  Protesters turn out against a bill in the West Virginia legislature that would have bundled teacher pay raises in a bill that would also expand charters and other elements unpalatable to many teachers in the state
• 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