Arizona Bill Would Ban Discussion of Social Justice, Solidarity in Schools
Arizona state representative Bob Thorpe, a Republican, has just proposed a bill that would ban any school courses or…
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A Decisive Year for NYC’s Embattled Public Schools
With 1.1 million students in over 1,800 schools, New York City’s public school system is the largest in the…
Putting CUNY Out of Reach: As Tuition Increases, State Funding Falls Short
It was an icy February morning in Albany. Hundreds of students from New York’s public colleges streamed out of…
Education as a Commodity: Chile Seeks to Break with a Dictator’s Legacy
In late January, Chilean President Michelle Bachelet signed into law the most significant educational reform the country has seen…
College Students Demand More Investment in Higher Education from Albany
After traveling for hours by bus, hundreds of students poured into hallways of the state capitol building in…
Book Launch: Revolt Against High-Stakes Testing Comes to Brooklyn
In the last two years, there’s been a surge in opposition to the system of high-stakes testing that’s fueling…
Success Academy Pulls Back From Lower East Side (For Now)
Using the same opaque maneuvers that characterized its rapid growth in New York City, Success Academy, the controversial charter…
Seen from the outside, the brightly-colored BioBus looks like it just rolled out of a Ken Kesey novel. Take…
Editor’s note: On January 10, teachers at Seattle’s Garfield High School unanimously refused to administer the Measures of Academic…