Education

The Similarities Between the Charter School Movement and the War on Drugs

By Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. / TruthOut.org

How both are creating an underclass, significantly among African American males.

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Arresting a Teen Girl for Dozing Off in Class? Why Normal Kid Behavior Is Treated As a Crime or Psychiatric Disorder

By David Rosen / AlterNet

Inside the Cooper Union Occupation’s First Hours

By Zachary Bell / Waging Nonviolence

A Handy Reference Guide on Who is Donating to Corporate-Style Education Reform

By Jessie B. Ramey / Yinzercation

College Execs have Private Jets? New Report Finds Public University Presidents Live Large

By Alyssa Figueroa / AlterNet

College Execs have Private Jets? New Report Finds Public University Presidents Live Large

Punishing Students For Not Making Eye Contact? How Charter Schools' Prejudiced Policies Undermine Equality

Who Is Profiting From Charters? The Big Bucks Behind Charter School Secrecy, Financial Scandal and Corruption

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Education

The 182 Percent Loan? How Installment Lenders Trap Borrowers

Paul Kiel / ProPublica

Five Things College Students Should Worry About Next Fall

Chris Lewis / Campus Progress

Public School Cancels Graduation Rather Than Remove Prayer From Ceremony

Katie McDonough / Salon

Mad Science or School-to-Prison? Criminalizing Black Girls

Sikivu Hutchinson / Black Agenda Report

Punishing Students For Not Making Eye Contact? How Charter Schools' Prejudiced Policies Undermine Equality

Kristin Rawls / AlterNet

Who Is Profiting From Charters? The Big Bucks Behind Charter School Secrecy, Financial Scandal and Corruption

Kristin Rawls / AlterNet

WATCH Elizabeth Warren: Students Should Get ‘Same Deal’ On Interest Rates As Big Banks

Naima Ramos-Chapman / Campus Progress

Why We Need A Moratorium On The High Stakes Of Common Core Testing

Jeff Bryant / Campaign for America's Future

How 'The Economist' Got it Wrong — America Still Needs Affirmative Action

Sean McElwee / AlterNet

"Issue Ad" Scam By Right-Wing Education Group Uncovered in Wisconsin

Brendan Fischer / PR Watch

Thanks to Abstinence Teacher, Elizabeth Smart Felt 'I'm That Chewed Up Piece of Gum'

Laura Clawson / Daily Kos

Schools and Cities Are Divesting From Fossil Fuels -- Why Can't All the Big Enviro Groups Do the Same?

Naomi Klein / The Nation

$22,000 Bid for the Right to a 6-Week Unpaid Internship Lays Bare What It Takes to Get Ahead in America

Sarah Kendzior / Al Jazeera English

Child with 'Life-Threatening' Epilepsy Asked to Take Standardized Test in Hospital

Steven Hsieh / AlterNet

F*ck You NRA! Principal Fires Guards, Expands Arts and Sees Test Scores Soar

Steven Hsieh / AlterNet

Big Brother is Watching...Our Kids' Test Scores

Peter Rugh / Socialist Worker

Footloose Redux: 33 High School Students Suspended for 'Twerking' Video

Steven Hsieh / AlterNet

The Top 10 Things Black America Will Have To Show For 8 Years of President Obama -- None of Them Are Good

Bruce A. Dixon / Black Agenda Report

Black Ministers v. GOP: 17 Arrests as NAACP Protests Extreme Right-wing Agenda in North Carolina

Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet

Welcome to America: Children Forced to Wear Bulletproof Backpacks, Companies Sell Shields Disguised as Whiteboards

Alex Kane / AlterNet

Exposed: The Billionaire-Backed Group Strong-Arming Parents into Destroying Their Kids' Public Schools

Yasha Levine / Not Safe for Work Corporation

Discredited Harvard Austerity-Pushers Reinhart and Rogoff Keep Lying to Protect Themselves

Dean Baker / Beat the Press

The Neoliberal Assault on Academia

Tarak Barkawi / Al Jazeera English

Why is Texas Instruments Lobbying Schools to Make Algebra II Mandatory?

Jason Stanford / AlterNet

Pilots and Professors Barely Scraping By? 9 Surprising Jobs That Pay a Pittance

Joshua Holland / AlterNet

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