As profit mentalities tighten their grip on society, democratic institutions and public spheres like education are downsized, if not altogether destroyed.
If the U.S. is to cease its slide into a violent, anti-democratic state, we must rethink the relationship between education and democracy, and the very nature of teaching.
The democratic mission of public education is under assault thanks to a right-wing reform culture that treats students as human capital rather than as future citizens.
Young people today face imprisonment, the prescription of psychotropic drugs, psychiatric confinement, and zero tolerance policies that model schools after prisons.
