Education

Meet the College Racists Trying to Get Armed to 'Defend' Whites from Blacks on Campus

By Kristen Gwynne / AlterNet

Some seriously bigoted students at Towson University have formed a despicable ‘White Student Union’.

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3 Slimy Tactics National Fraternities Use to Avoid Responsibility For Death and Injury

By Steven Hsieh / AlterNet

High School Teacher In Trouble For Using the Word 'Vagina' in Biology Class

By Katie McDonough / Salon

Are the Chicago School Closings Racist?

By Samantha Winslow / Labor Notes

Petty Revenge: Michigan Republicans Slash Higher-Ed Spending in Retaliation for Union Contracts

By Laura Clawson / Daily Kos

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Education

'White Student Union' Announces Nighttime Patrols on College Campus

Scott Keyes / Think Progress

9 Disturbing Facts About the Crazy Economics of Spring Break

Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet

University of Colorado Hires 'Scholar of Conservative Thought': Is it Just Affirmative Action for Right-Wingers?

Paul Harvey / Religion Dispatches

Sick: Teachers and Students Called 16-Year-Old Girl “Freak,” “Alien,” and “He-She"

Alyssa Figueroa / AlterNet

How Student Loans Are Keeping You Out Of The Middle Class

Zach Duffy / Campus Progress

Human Stupidity Is Destroying the World

Mark Morford / San Francisco Chronicle

Hidden Victim of Austerity: State Universities That Educate Our Children

Peter Temin / AlterNet

What’s Not Being Taught About The Iraq War

Jonathan Zimmerman / Salon.com

Are Americans Too Stupid For Democracy?

Joshua Holland / AlterNet

9 Year Olds Launch Campaign to Return Classmate from Mexico

Alyssa Figueroa / AlterNet

Chicago Public Schools Take Marjane Satrapi’s ‘Persepolis’ Out Of Seventh-Grade Classrooms

Alyssa Rosenberg / Think Progress

Corporations Are Behind The Common Core State Standards — And That's Why They'll Never Work

Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. / AlterNet

Without Financial Aid: Making the Choice Between Food or School

James King / Campus Progress

Should Colleges Buy Ammo for Student Gun Clubs?

Gavin Aronsen / Mother Jones Online

L.A. Teachers' Union Beats Back Attempt by Bloomberg, Rhee and Murdoch to Buy School Board

Samantha Winslow / Labor Notes

Why Students Learn Better in a Playful Environment

Peter Gray / Basic Books

11 Most Absurd Lies Conservatives Are Using to Brainwash America's School Kids

Amanda Marcotte / AlterNet

Harvard Caught Snooping Through Employee Emails

Steven Hsieh / AlterNet

Chomsky: The Corporate Assault on Public Education

Noam Chomsky / AlterNet

Washington GOP-Sponsored Bill Would Force Supreme Court Judges to Draw Straws To Keep Their Jobs

Aviva Shen / Think Progress

Chomsky: Corporations and the Richest Americans Viscerally Oppose Common Good

Noam Chomsky / AlterNet

Teachers Make Handy Scapegoats, But Spiraling Inequality Is Really What Ails Our Education System

Joshua Holland, Linda Darling-Hammond / AlterNet

Hippies Demonized in Louisiana Voucher School Textbook

Steven Hsieh / AlterNet

Why Sending Your Child to a Charter School Hurts Other Children

Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. / AlterNet

Why Are Walmart Billionaires Bankrolling Phony School ‘Reform’ In LA?

Peter Drier / Moyers & Company

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