Education

How the Federal Reserve Is Manipulating Our Kids Into Loving Wall Street

By Les Leopold / AlterNet

A Fed-sponsored competition brainwashes teens into putting the capitalist titans of Wall Street on a pedestal.

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Science or Sex: Which Does the Right Hate More?

By Tracy Clark-Flory / Salon

Is It Time to End Suspension as the 'Go-To' Punishment in Schools?

By Brian Willoughby / Teaching Tolerance

Why I Voted to Authorize the Chicago Teachers' Strike

By Lara Lindh / Socialist Worker

Test-Based Teacher Evaluation Earns F, Again

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

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

What Happens When Public Universities Are Run by Robber Barons

Siva Vaidhyanathan / AlterNet

Are the President's Education Policies Helping Our Kids?

Kristin Rawls / AlterNet

What Does It Mean To Be Literate In The 21st Century?

Sheila Moorcroft / Shaping Tomorrow

The Loch Ness Monster Is Real; The KKK Is Good: The Shocking Content of Publicly Paid for Christian School Textbooks

Bruce Wilson / Talk To Action

Obama's DREAM Policy and My Undocumented Brother

Matias Ramos / Other Words

Student-Driven Teaching Leads the Way at a New Brooklyn School

Grace Tatter / Gotham Schools

Diane Ravitch Out at Brookings, Romney Advisor to Blame?

Laura Clawson / Daily Kos

Far from Home, Far from School

Ankita Rao, Celia Llopis-Jepsen / School Stories

Grieving Father Struggles to Repay Dead Son's Massive Student Loans

Marian Wang / ProPublica

What Do Apartheid South Africa and Tucson, Arizona Have in Common?

Bill Bigelow / Rethinking Schools

Does Your Doctor Have a Fake Degree? The Billion-Dollar Industry That Has Sold Over a Million Fake Diplomas

John Bear, Allen Ezell / AlterNet

States to Residents: Forget Promises to Restore School Funding

Mike Alberti / Remapping Debate

What Public University?: UCLA Takes its Business School Private

Jon Wiener / The Nation

The 10 Richest -- and Poorest -- School Districts in America

Michael B. Sauter, Ashley C. Allen, Lisa Nelson, Alexander E. M. Hess / 24/7 Wall St.

‘Turning and Turning in the Widening Gyre’

William J. Mathis / The Washington Post

Facing Funding Cuts, Continuation Schools Struggle to Serve Students in Need

Leslie Layton / New American Media

Maple Spring Blooming: How the Attempt to Hike Tuition in Quebec Set Off a Powder Keg of Unrest

Jesse Rosenfeld / AlterNet

5 Ways Louisiana’s New Voucher Program Spells Disaster for Public Education

Kristin Rawls / AlterNet

No on SEIU's Chicago School Deal

Orlando Sepúlveda / Socialist Worker

Subsidized Child Care Overhaul Shuts the Door on Many Home-Based Providers

Rose D'souza / Gotham Schools

JPMorgan: If This Is a Financial Fortress, Run For the Bunkers

Pam Martens / Wall Street on Parade

Alternative DREAM Act Introduced, Secures Path to Permanent Residency

Ben Winograd / Immigration Impact

Does a Texas Charter School Chain Use Taxpayer Money to Proselytize Students and Fund a Church?

Simon Brown / Church & State

This Week: $4,500 for a Better SAT Score? The College Board's Unfair New Program

Elizabeth G. Hines / AlterNet

'Firing Day' at the Charter School

Nancy Bloom / CoLab Radio

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