Educate us: A call for change to Northwestern’s curriculum “There is immeasurable importance for this campus to understand diversity and social inequality,” writes Northwestern University
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Meet the charter schools proponent who says “unions get way too much blame” Not all charter school advocates want to gut teacher tenure and unions.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: The Lottery John Oliver details how lotteries promise big returns to state legislatures but don’t deliver.
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How the U.S. Government Could End the Student Debt Crisis Today by Raúl Carrillo YES! Magazine shows the student debt crisis has a solution, but
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The plot against public education In a lengthy piece for Politico Magazine, Bob Herbert explains how millionaires and billionaires, led by Bill Gates, are ruining
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In order for children to learn, they need to be able to pay attention. In order to pay attention, we need to let them move.
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As a country, we can either invest in tax loopholes for billionaires or lower-cost student loans for young people who are trying to build a
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High cost of college: the truth behind the myths The Seattle Times’ Katherine Long runs though “eight myths (and some truths) about why college costs
LaunchJudge Treu’s ruling is a victory for the education industry, not students or parents, CFT says
We believe the judge fell victim to the anti-union, anti-teacher rhetoric and one of American’s finest corporate law firms that set out to scapegoat teachers
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Lessons from corporatized college: Even PhDs are being squeezed out of the middle class. A college degree, or two or three, is not necessarily a
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Louis C.K. against Common Core The New Yorker talks to comedian Louis C.K. about standardized testing and the federal government’s misguided effort to get states
LaunchHomework is eating American schoolkids and their families
The school is a business that produces educated children as products. The teachers are employees. The administrators are managers. The government is the board of
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Public school defenders launch movement in Austin Ruth Conniff: “Deep in the heart of Texas, in the very center of what public-school advocate Diane Ravitch
LaunchThe impact of testing and natural inequality on our classrooms
What many people do not know is that the use of standardized tests has its origins in the Eugenics movement, where basic tenets assert that
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Study links low intelligence with right-wing beliefs
“Researchers have found a possible explanation for why certain people are prejudiced: they’re less intelligent,” writes Wency Leung.
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