Locked Out and Locked Up: Youth Missing in Action From Obama's Stimulus Plan
The quality of life for many young people appears even more fragile in the United States in this time of political, economic and social crisis.
View ArticleAmerican Youth in the 21st Century: Pathologized, Criminalized and Disposable
Young people today face imprisonment, the prescription of psychotropic drugs, psychiatric confinement, and zero tolerance policies that model schools after prisons.
View ArticleThere's No Democratic Culture in America -- We Live in an Era of Imposed Amnesia
Getting to the bottom of the electoral sweep that just put the most egregious Republican Party candidates back in power.
View ArticleWhy Teaching People to Think for Themselves Is Repugnant to Religious Zealots...
Democracy cannot function without an informed citizenry, and an ignorant public is just what Santorum and his allies count on.
View ArticleIs America on the Verge of Theocracy? 4 Fundamentalist Ideologies Threatening...
Extremists shape American politics to unabashedly pursue legislative policies that favor the rich and punish the poor.
View ArticleCan Public Education Survive in a Country Dominated by Privatizers?
The democratic mission of public education is under assault thanks to a right-wing reform culture that treats students as human capital rather than as future citizens.
View ArticleThe War Against Teachers
If the U.S. is to cease its slide into a violent, anti-democratic state, we must rethink the relationship between education and democracy, and the very nature of teaching.
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Angela Davis, Freedom and the Politics of Higher Education
For decades, the sixties icon, activist and scholar has waged the struggle for the other America.At a time when higher education is under siege all over the globe by market mentalities and moralities,...
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There's a Major Assault on Democracy and the Public Good in Chicago, Led by...
As profit mentalities tighten their grip on society, democratic institutions and public spheres like education are downsized, if not altogether destroyed. This article first appeared on TruthOut.Across...
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The United States Is Awash in Public Stupidity, and Critical Thought Is Under...
From celebrity culture to phony public intellectuals to shallow politicians -- there's an assault on rational thinking in this country.America has become amnesiac - a country in which forms of...
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America’s Descent Into Madness
It is crucial that all Americans push back against the coercive forces shaping U.S. culture, before it's too late.America has entered one of its periods of historical madness, but this is the worst I...
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How Schools Have Become Dead Zones of the Imagination
Since the 1980s, schools have increasingly become testing hubs that de-skill teachers and disempower students. Some of us who have already begun to break the silence of the night have found that the...
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As Depressing as It Is to Watch America's Killing Machine Gear Up for Another...
Hope refuses the cynical and politically reactionary idea that power cannot be simply equated with domination. The war drums are beating loudly, and America is once more mobilizing its global war...
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Why Noam Chomsky Is One of America's Great Public Intellectuals
Chomsky appears to be an exile in his own country by virtue of his political interventions and his displays of fierce courage. This article first appeared on TruthOut. Noam Chomsky is a world-renowned...
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Are We Becoming a Theocracy? 4 Fundamentalist Ideologies That Threaten America
Extremists shape American politics to pursue legislative policies that favor the rich and punish the poor.Americans seem confident in the mythical notion that the United States is a free nation...
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