Education

A Campus Redesign, Courtesy of the Students Who Learn There

By Rachel Cromidas / Gotham Schools

With help from the Pratt Institute, Staten Island high school students have reimagined their campus to better serve the small learning communities it houses.

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For Minority Kids, Preschool Narrows Education Gap

By Yolanda Arenal / New America Media

Want to Appreciate Teachers? Stop Treating Their Students Like Dirt

By Molly Knefel / AlterNet

Debt: What It Is and Why We Fight It

By Sarah Jaffe, David Graeber, Astra Taylor, Mike Konczal, Brian Kalkbrenner / N+1 Magazine

We Have Everything We Need Already: Community Control of Education

By Beverly Bell / Other Worlds

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

School "Lunch Ladies" Fight for Better Food for Students--And Better Jobs

Kari Lydersen / In These Times

Loan Service Companies Leave Student Borrowers in the Lurch

Marian Wang / ProPublica

Putting Cuffs on Kids

Nicole Colson / Socialist Worker

Chicago Teachers Weigh Strike Option Over Employer Demands

David Moberg / In These Times

What You Need To Know About ALEC

Diane Ravitch / Bridging Differences

"Tuition Fees are Class War!" CUNY Brooklyn College Students Roughed Up By Police for Demanding Fairer Treatment

Sarah Jaffe / AlterNet

Misreading the Achievement Gap: A Tale of Bi-Partisan Failure

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

Why Are Universities Buying Up Drones Faster Than Police Departments?

Jefferson Morley / Salon

He-Men and Virginity Pledges? Obama Administration Quietly Endorses Absurd Anti-Sex Curriculum

Elizabeth Schroeder, Debra Hauser, Monica Rodriguez, Danene Sorace / RH Reality Check

What Teachers Want

Dana Goldstein / The Nation

How You End up Paying for Religious Schools Without Knowing It

Katherine Stewart / Comment Is Free

Arizona's Ethnic Studies Debacle: Why There's No Such Thing as Too Much Truth

Genesis Lara / TruthOut.org

UC Davis Students and Faculty Face Prison Time for Peaceful Protest Against Bank

Mela Heestand / AlterNet

Transforming Trauma Into Art: How Arts Education Is Changing Lives in NYC Public Schools

Judith Sloan / AlterNet

Doomed To Repeat It: Is Tennessee's New "Monkey Law" Just Scopes All Over Again?

Glenn Branch / National Center for Science Education

Does Mitt Romney Have an Education Platform?

Kristin Rawls / AlterNet

Wall Street-Inflated Student Debt Bubble Hits $1 Trillion; Debtors Rally for Relief

Sarah Jaffe / AlterNet

Using ALEC Playbook, Bobby Jindal Radically Reshapes Public Education

Julianne Hing / Colorlines.com

Excerpt: Southern Stalemate: Five Years without Public Education in Prince Edward County, Virginia

Christopher Bonastia / AlterNet

Right-Wing Campaign to Privatize Public Ed Takes Hold in Pennsylvania

Daniel Denvir / AlterNet

For-Profit Education Fraud Tied to Political Elite

Danny Weil / TruthOut.org

Does Steven Brill's <i>'Class Warfare'</i> Pass Muster? Not if You Care About the Truth

Patrick Walsh / AlterNet

In New York, Parents Just Say No to School Testing

Philissa Cramer / Gotham Schools

Voting for Our Future: What Candidates Must Say About Education in 2012

Jeff Bryant / Campaign for America's Future

18 Ways Higher Ed Can Support Occupy and Other Social Justice Movements

Maura Stephens / TruthOut.org

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