Education

‘The Revolution Will Not Be Standardized’: Day Two of the Chicago Teachers Strike

By Kari Lydersen / In These Times

'Strike schools,' picket lines, and support from other unions were part of the second day of the historic work stoppage.

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5 So-Called Liberal Pundits Who Are Attacking Teachers

By Sarah Jaffe / AlterNet

Stand Against Rahm! The Chicago Teachers' Strike Is the Next Chapter in the Fight Against Plutocracy

By Rick Perlstein / Salon

Why the Chicago Teachers Strike Is Really About Better Schools

By David Moberg / In These Times

4 Reasons Chicago's Teachers Are on Strike

By Miles Kampf-Lassin / Occupied Chicago Tribune

At This Fiscal Crossroads, Let's Talk About the Common Good and Our National Future

Consolidating College Diversity Departments? CA Austerity Measures Attempt to Silence Those Who Critique Them

4 Ways College Admissions Committees Stack the Deck in Favor of Already Privileged Applicants

Education

A Chicago Teacher Speaks Out: This Is Why We Fight

Dave Stieber / AlterNet

Why I'm Striking

Xian Barrett / Teacher X

Testing Companies are Robbing Your Children of an Education, and Making Big Money for Big Business in the Process

Susan Ohanian, Marion Brady / Truthout

Why All Ed Reform Fails

Terry Heick / TeachThought

Should Kids Go To Jail for Skipping School?

Annette Fuentes / Economic Hardship Reporting Project

Freedom University Creates Educational Space for Undocumented Students

Vanessa Perez / Huffington Post

Chicago Teachers Uprising Takes on a 1 Percent Mayor, and the Labor Establishment to Boot

Ari Paul / AlterNet

Obama's Big Finale at the DNC -- Dems Are More Agressive, United Than We've Seen in Years

Joshua Holland / AlterNet

BULLIED: What Every Parent, Teacher and Kid Needs to Know about Ending the Cycle of Fear

Carrie Goldman / Harper Collins Publishers, Inc.

White House Education Advisors Talk the Talk -- But Can They Walk the Walk When it Comes to Dismantling NCLB?

Jessie B. Ramey / Yinzercation

Students of Color Still Receiving Unequal Education

Ary Spatig-Amerikaner / Center for American Progress

Chicago Teachers Countdown to Strike Time

Theresa Moran / Labor Notes

"No Excuses" and the Culture of Shame: The Miseducation of Our Nation's Children

Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. / Daily Kos

4 Ways Romney & Ryan Would Roll Back the 20th Century

Jake Blumgart / AlterNet

Why 'Won't Back Down' Just Doesn't Stack Up

Sabrina Stevens / AlterNet

What's Race Got to Do With It? A History of Child Care in America

Jessie B. Ramey / AlterNet

Crazy Country: 6 Reasons America Spends More on Prisons Than On Higher Education

Les Leopold / AlterNet

How to Kill Student Curiosity in 12 Easy Steps

Terry Heick / TeachThought

College Students Are Going Homeless and Hungry -- And Corporate America Is Trying to Exploit Them

Adam Turl / Socialist Worker

Segregation, the Black-White Achievement Gap, and the Romneys

Richard Rothstein / Economic Policy Institute

Big Rumbling in Chicago as Teachers Move Toward Historic Strike

Kari Lydersen / In These Times

Are Police in Schools Making Students Safer, or Putting Them at Greater Risk for Abuse?

s.e. smith / AlterNet

Professors Making $10,000 a Year? Academia Becoming a Profession Only the Elite Can Afford

Sarah Kendzior / Al Jazeera

8 Reasons We Should Be Seriously Suspicious of the Common Core Standards

Marion Brady / The Washington Post

One State's Poor Excuse for Funneling Taxpayer Cash to Private Schools

Jessie B. Ramey / Yinzercation

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