Education

Inside ALEC's Powerful, Right-Wing Indoctrination Machine

By Alexander Zaitchik / Media Matters

The ultimate return sought by ALEC is nothing less than the rollback of the state and the establishment of unfettered corporate rule.

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Right-Wing Media Completely Distorts Educational Initiative for Undocumented Students

By Alyssa Figueroa / AlterNet

Six Degrees of Insanity: "Reforming" Education

By Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. / Schools Matter

Walmart, Right-Wing Media Company Hold Star-Studded Benefit Promoting Film About ALEC-Backed Education "Reform"

By Josh Eidelson / In These Times

6 Reasons Teachers Unions Are Good for Kids

By Kristin Rawls / AlteNet

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

"We Have No Choice But to Step Up": Youth Activists Come Together to Build a Movement for Student Power

Sarah Jaffe / AlterNet

Why Don't American Students Strike?

Zachary A. Bell / The Nation

Student Organizers Cheer Arrival of Deferred Action, Brace for Bigger Fight

Jacob Surpin / AlterNet

My Public School Beat-Down

Pamela Kripke / Salon

"An Extreme Choice" -- What Two of Wisconsin's Leading Progressive Journalists Think About Mitt Romney's Pick of Paul Ryan

Amy Goodman, Matthew Rothschild, John Nichols / Democracy Now!

Why Are Our Public Schools Up For Sale?

Sarah Knopp, Jeff Bale / Other Words

14 Wacky "Facts" Kids Will Learn in Louisiana's Voucher Schools

Deanna Pan / Mother Jones

One Mom's Effort to Dampen Down the Media's Empty Nest Hysteria

Michele Weldon / AlterNet

Administration Releases Details on Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals

Ben Winograd / Immigration Impact

Student Debt Crisis: It's Time for a Jubilee

Mark Engler / Dissent Magazine

The State of America's Children 2012

Marian Wright Edelman / AlterNet

A Recipe for School Success

Stephanie Espinoza / New America Media

10 Ways School Reformers Get It Wrong

Colin Greer / AlterNet

What's Campbell Brown Doing Smearing Teachers All Over the Media?

Sarah Jaffe / AlterNet

Want to Fix Education Policy? Ask the Students How

Grace Tatter / Gotham Schools

What’s Really Wrong with Teacher Quality and Teacher Education?

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

How the For-Profit Education Business Is a Complete Taxpayer Rip-Off

Andrew Leonard / Salon

How Hazing, Frats and Big-Time Athletics Are Ruining University Life and Real Scholarship

Chris Hedges / Truthdig

5 Reasons Why NYU's Expansion Plan Reeks of 1% Greed

Laura Gottesdiener / AlterNet

Here, Us, Now: Students Come Together This Week to Build a Powerful Nationwide Movement

Biola Jeje, Isabelle Nastasia / AlterNet

San Francisco Faces Possible Closure of Adult Education Programs

Peter Schurman / New America Media

Atheist Students Confront Bigotry, Establish Secular Clubs in Schools

Victoria Lim / Teaching Tolerance

The World Needs More Geek Girls -- And Here's Where They're Coming From Now

Ysabel Yates / Txchnologist

One Woman's Account of How Abuse, Corruption and Silence at Penn State Perpetuate a Poisonous Culture

Kristin Rawls / AlterNet

Penn State Students Bear Brunt of NCAA Sanctions for Sandusky Cover-Up as Trustees Emerge Unscathed

Amy Goodman / Democracy Now!

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