Latest Education

• 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
• Harris: The Diploma Divide

  The gulf between the party identification of white voters with college degrees and those without is growing rapidly. Trump is widening it
• Berliner: My students asked who I would vote for. Here’s what I told them

  The roots of America’s educational problems are in the numbers of Americans who live in poverty
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  Prashad: The fight for better university education is global

  More needs to be fought for – more colleges, more imagination – the natural disorder of youth, a yearning for a world without want
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  Rasmus: The Tech-Driven New ‘Business Model’ for the US Education System

  Higher college education as we know it will largely disappear with the coming diffusion of AI tech throughout the US system
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  Wittner: Today’s College Students Are Paying More for Less

  Surely America can do a better job of providing educational opportunity for its people
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  Elk: which states will teachers strike in next?

  As a new school year begins, teachers in California, Colorado and Illinois, among other states, are determined to continue the fight for better pay and school funding
• Bader: How Colleges Sideline Sexual Abuse Complaints

  "Anything to Avoid a Scandal"
• Research Committee: NYU and Columbia University’s IDA-Pentagon Connection

  Neither university administrators nor university professors in New York City should be helping to develop more deadly weapons for the U.S. permanent war machine
• Jaffe: Graduate Student Workers Organize Against Sexual Harassment

  The struggle against sexual harassment belongs in the union because it is part of the broader fight against the increased neoliberalization of academia
• Chávez: A Progressive Democrat Promises to Revolutionize Education

  Though education is at the heart of Garcia’s campaign, he hasn’t shied away from his identity and speaking out about the racial dynamics in the state
• Ravitch: Bill Gates’s Disastrous Teacher Evaluation Project

  The cost was astronomical. Across the seven sites over half a billion dollars were spent
• Au: Massive, Anti-Democratic Model of Education Reform

  Interview on Gates' educational failure
• Peterson: Transforming Teacher Unions in a Post-Janus World

  We are witnessing the rebirth of a struggle “about all workers, social justice, working conditions, and also what kind of society we want to live in.”
• Brooks: Before It All Melts Away

  The negotiable issues vary by state, but contracts could potentially limit class size, lock in wage scales and health benefits, limit standardized tests, define the evaluation and tenure process, and establish protections against arbitrary discipline
• Capeloto: What’s wrong with secret donor agreements?

  George Mason University President Ángel Cabrera acknowledged this month that his school gave the Charles Koch Foundation “some influence” over hiring and evaluating faculty
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  Giroux: Striking Teachers Beat Back Neoliberalism’s War on Public Schools

  The struggle over public education has ignited new modes of criticism that contain the potential to build a mass movement from the bottom up