As school budgets are cut, disabled students are being handed over to police for behavioral infractions -- and handcuffs are just the beginning of what they're forced to endure.
Tory Frye, NYC Public School Parents. May 18, 2012.
Parents from Williamsburg to Riverdale say the state’s high-stakes standardized testing regimen is out of control and a serious threat to their children’s education.
Diana Pei Wu, Race, Poverty & the Environment. May 17, 2012.
The arena of struggle revealed by Occupy the Farm is not just organic farming, food justice, and food sovereignty--it's also about an increasingly privatized university.
After helping her students reach the 98th percentile on state math tests one year, a teacher finds herself labeled an abject failure the next. Confused? You should be.
U.S. Department of Justice informed state officials in a letter last week that the state’s immigration law has resulted in significantly higher absence rates among Latinos.
Academic research is often dictated by corporations that endow professorships, give money to universities, and put their executives on education boards.
According to current rubrics, David Chura and his former students were educational "failures." But after 40 years working with kids, Chura isn't buying that notion.
With help from the Pratt Institute, Staten Island high school students have reimagined their campus to better serve the small learning communities it houses.
One million borrowers have discovered their federal student loans randomly transferred to new loan-serving companies -- and little about the transition has been smooth.
The case of a kindergartner arrested for having a tantrum at school points to a larger pattern of students--especially Black students--being criminalized in the classroom.
Demoralized after being scapegoated for problems in Chicago Public Schools, Chicago's teachers are gearing up for what could be their first strike since 1987.
The now embattled organization has been working to destroy public ed for the past forty years. Here's what you need to know about how they're doing it.
