The Conscious Classroom
Adam Doster
A new generation of educators, frustrated with ineffective reforms, turns to pedagogy focused on social justice.
2007
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Shanker Blows Up the World
The life and legacy of a fiery New York teachers' advocate gets caught in the crossfire of a changing liberal landscape.
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School's Out
LynNell Hancock : Standardized Testing
The radical corporate overhaul of NYC public schools is draining the soul from education and reducing learning to a series of standardized tests and progress reports.
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Evaluating 'No Child Left Behind'
The problems and promises of Bush's education policy.
2006
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Katrina's Last Victims?
Lisa Delpit & Charles Payne : Charter Schools
The New Orleans school system, re-created in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, is beginning to look like something designed by FEMA.
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Playing Politics at School
Hasdai Westbrook : Drug Policy/Drug War
Casting himself as tough on school crime as election day nears, Kentucky Republican Representative Geoff Davis is pushing a measure that puts the constitutional right of students at risk.
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Leave No Tax Cheat Behind
If President Bush and the Republican Congress would close the loopholes on tax cheats--especially the superrich--there would be ample money to improve the quality of education in the nation's public schools.
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Doing Lunch
Ann Cooper, gourmet chef turned healthy school food advocate, talks about becoming a "lunch lady" and what it takes to reform our children's cafeterias.
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Rebels With a Cause
Gary Younge : Student Movements
A new generation of student activists is flexing its muscles, rolling back employment rules in France, demanding education reform in Chile and fighting for immigrant rights in the US.
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Science and the First Amendment
Patricia J. Princehouse : 1st Amendment
If you can lie about science and get away with it, you can lie about anything. That's why we must say no to ideological zealots who are waging war against science and against democracy itself.
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UCLA's Dirty Thirty
Jon Wiener : Student Movements
Negative media coverage has succeeded in undermining support among prominent conservatives for a UCLA alumni group that paid students to target and expose left-leaning faculty.
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Education Mobilization
Major Owens : State of the Union
Establish a first-rate education system to draw on our greatest untapped human resource: the children of our inner cities.
2005
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Overcoming Apartheid
Jonathan Kozol : African-Americans
Apartheid education is alive in America and rapidly increasing in hyper-segregated inner-city schools. And though it's now fashionable for policy-makers to declare integration a failure, effective programs across the country still survive--and deserve to thrive.
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Darwin on Trial
Eyal Press : Religious Fundamentalism
As the site of a trial on including intelligent design in biology textbooks, Dover, Pennsylvania, is a focal point of a national debate on science and religion. But a look at the town and its residents show that the battle may not be so clearly defined.
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Before School
San Francisco recently launched universal preschool, designed to make young participants higher earners and better citizens when they reach adulthood. If successful, San Francisco's initiative could make preschool as commonplace as kindergarten.
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NYU's Poison Ivy Itch
When one of New York's biggest and most liberal institutions gets into the business of union-busting, it's hardly an internal matter.
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Failing Students, Rising Profits
The Community Education Partners (CEP) serves students the public schools don't want--and it makes millions.
2004
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The Issue Left Behind
Linda Perlstein : Presidential Election 2004
Why the candidates won't talk about education.
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Keep the Promise to Our Children
Robert L. Borosage : George W. Bush Administration
The largest mobilization ever for public schools has one simple demand.
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Schwarzenegger's Education Failures
Shane Paul Goldmacher : California
The Governor is setting two dangerous precedents for education in California.
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What's Good Enough?
Peter Schrag : Standardized Testing
Advocates are demanding not just equal but decent schools for all children.
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Not Just a Test
Claude M. Steele : African-Americans
Why we must rethink the paradigm we use for judging human ability.
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The Heat of Summerton
Racial tensions still simmer in the rural county where Brown was born.
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The Long Road to Equality
The product of black legal skill and strategy, Brown has a black copyright.
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It Could Have Gone the Other Way
Michael J. Klarman : Supreme Court
At the time, the Justices had doubts that Brown was rightly decided.
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How Edison Survived
Discredited and broke, the school privatizer found an unlikely white knight.
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Free Higher Ed!
Mark Dudzic & Adolph Reed Jr. : Dennis Kucinich
If only they are bold enough, Democrats can win on their own wedge issues.
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The Internet School Scam
Todd Oppenheimer : White-Collar Crime
A questionable plan to wire poor schools has turned into a business boondoggle.
2003
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Discipline and Punish
Annette Fuentes : Youth Violence
Zero tolerance policies have created a "lockdown environment" in schools.
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Bush Flunks Schools
Susan Ohanian : George W. Bush Administration
If "no child left behind" meant what it said, it would offer help, not sanctions.
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No-Brainer
David L. Kirp : Higher Education
Devising a fair federal policy for higher education would not be hard.
2002
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Stealth Vouchers
Bill Berkowitz : Economic Policy
Education tax credits are Bush's payback to the religious right.
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Reading Between the Lines
Stephen Metcalf : George W. Bush
While many have noted Bush's intimacy with the oil and gas industry, few have pointed out his cozy relationship with McGraw-Hill.
2001
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Yale Bites Unions
Kim Phillips-Fein : Wages & Hours
Harvard made headlines when it refused to pay a living wage, but when it comes to playing tough with unions, New Haven has Cambridge beat by a mile.
2000
This week: Can Barack Obama be a "People's President," or is his move to the center for good? Betsy Reed, Doug Henwood, Jo-Ann Mort, Ta-Nehisi Coates and Gary Younge debate. (13mb mp3)
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