On AlterNet: public education

Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "public education"

1% Find Creative Ways to Profit from Our Schools -- At What Cost to Our Kids?

Julianne Hing, ColorLines. October 20, 2011.

Rupert Murdoch's sudden interest in America's school system does not bode well.

Chomsky: Public Education Under Massive Corporate Assault — What's Next?

Noam Chomsky, AlterNet. August 5, 2011.

Converting schools and universities into facilities that produce commodities for the job market, privatizing them, slashing their budgets — do we really want this future?

The DeVos Family: Meet the Super-Wealthy Right-Wingers Working With the Religious Right to Kill Public Education

Rachel Tabachnick, AlterNet. May 6, 2011.

By now you've surely heard of the Kochs. Meanwhile, the powerful, wealthy DeVos family has remained largely under the radar, while leading a stealth assault on America's schools.

States' Shameful Trade-Off: Putting Prisons Over Public Schools

Michelle Chen, In These Times. April 21, 2011.

At the center of state lawmakers' money-laundering shell game is the starving of public education for investments in prisons -- an incentive for incarcerating the disadvantaged.

The Tragic Ways Our Schools Shortchange Latino Students

Ray Suarez, Race-Talk. July 12, 2010.

Latino families have the highest workplace participation rates in the country. Yet few of their kids end up graduating from college. Why?

The Military Invades U.S. Schools: How Military Academies Are Being Used to Destroy Public Education

Brian Roa, TruthOut.org. July 1, 2009.

In Chicago, there's a push to replace public schools with military academies. This model may soon spread to the rest of the country.

Unions Need to do a Better Job Talking to Their Members About Immigration

Tiffany Ten Eyck, Labor Notes. July 8, 2008.

Labor's leaders understand that immigrant workers are valuable as allies, not competitors, but they haven't done enough to educate the rank-and-file.