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School’s Cool

If we are to revive American schools, we must top dwelling on despair and rejoice at the power of learning, a new book argues.

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Real Sex Ed Returns

But will Democrats axe abstinence-only?

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Cafeteria Kickbacks

How food-service providers like Sodexo bilk millions from taxpayers.

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Unequal Education

No Child Left Behind demands equal test scores from neighborhoods with unequal incomes and resources.

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Illinois Schools On Uneven Field

A Chicago educational reform movement keeps fighting to address the suburban-urban funding disparity

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‘Chicago Boys’ Home

University of Chicago professors protest school's planned 'Milton Friedman Institute'

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Class Not Dismissed

New York isn't the only city that never sleeps. Across America, many educators spend restless nights wondering how to… more

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Ivory Tower Inc.

For those of us who have flirted with a life in academia, Marc Bousquet's How the University Works: Higher… more

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A Textbook Case

AP students learn ABCs of right-wing talking points

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The Military’s Stealth Test

School districts are beginning to keep the results of a dodgy student aptitude test out of the hands of military recruiters

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Wingnut Awareness Week

Neocons beat the war drum on college campuses

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The Crime Against Debbie Almontaser

Even Bloomberg now admits that the victim of the New York "Intifada" t-shirt hysteria is no terrorist

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Restoring Classroom Justice

Restorative justice in schools has picked up steam in response to "zero tolerance" policies, which lead to "schoolhouse-to-jailhouse tracking"

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Labor Takes a Seat in the Classroom

Educators are taking steps to bring union history into American schools

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A Dream Deferred

Only sustained community activism will reverse the Supreme Court's most recent betrayal of Brown v. Board of Education

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Mainers Give Grads Debt Relief

Their state's economy at a crossroads, politicians embrace Opportunity Maine, which eases the financial burden of going to college

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When College Ends, So Does Activism

Why selling out is a depressingly rational choice for many graduates

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GI Bill Fails Vets

Soldiers returning from Iraq aren't receiving their education stipends until it's too late

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Education Reform: Pass or Fail?

As No Child Left Behind comes due for reauthorization, questions remain about whether it really helps children learn

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Children of the Brand

As I sat in the café of a Borders bookstore in Chicago huddled over my laptop and struggling to… more

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What We Learn When We Learn Economics

Is a little economics a dangerous thing?

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Is Diversity Enough?

Walter Benn Michaels asks us to consider the harm done when we worry about identity and forget about inequality

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SDS, New and Improved

SDS reforms at University of Chicago convention.

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Curriculum Wars

A California State Senator wants to help public schools catch up with history

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Hey Millennials, Debt Becomes You

Twenty-somethings face a life of looming loans

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All for One, None for All

School choice policies sacrifice universal education in favor of personal freedom

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Freedom of Repression

New ruling will allow censorship of campus publications

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Battling Big Cola

Parents and health advocates fight to make sure Pepsi is not the choice of a new generation

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The Childrens Crusade

Military programs move into middle schools to fish for future soldiers

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The Dead Hand of Disney

It’s a strange thing when a letter from the school principal arrives on lime green and aqua stationery. Stranger… more

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Cornel West: Public Intellectual

Cornel West may be America’s best-known public intellectual. He’s a professor of religion at Princeton University, where he has… more

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Educate All Children

Adequate and equitable funding is required for schools to provide qualified teachers, small classes and up-to-date facilities

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Rove Sweet Rove

Ignored by “Bush’s Brain,” activists take the fight to his home

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Pee First, Ask Questions Later

In the past decade, a veritable Kindergulag has been erected around schoolchildren, making them subject to arbitrary curfews, physical… more

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No Child Left Unrecruited

In another sign of the U.S. military’s increasing encroachment into civilian life, all high schools are now obligated to… more

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Test Unrest

California teachers are leading a backlash against high-stakes exams.

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