‘Monopoly Capital’ in the Classroom
July 1, 2016
Michael Meeropol taught economics for more than thirty years at Western New England University, and was later a visiting professor of economics at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. He… READ MORE
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Beyond Opt Out: A Broader Challenge to Corporate School Reform
June 1, 2016
Howard Ryan is a longtime education activist and a former college English instructor. His book Educational Justice: Teaching and Organizing against the Corporate Juggernaut is forthcoming from Monthly Review Press…. READ MORE
Self-Rule in the Balance
June 1, 2016
Seth Sandronsky is a journalist and a member of the Pacific Media Workers Guild. � Paul Street, They Rule: The 1% vs. Democracy (London: Routledge, 2014), 252 pages, $30.95, paperback…. READ MORE
Voices, Not Numbers: Towards a Greater Democracy in Education
May 1, 2016
Carl A. Grant is Hoefs-Bascom Professor of Education at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Every child has the right to say what they think in all matters affecting them, and… READ MORE
The Broken BBC: From Public Service to Corporate Power
April 1, 2016
Gavin Lewis is a British freelance writer and academic who has taught critical theory, film, and cultural studies at several UK universities. In the face of austerity cuts to state… READ MORE
Realists of a Larger Reality: On New Science Fiction
April 1, 2016
Amy Schrager Lang is an emeritus professor of English at Syracuse University. Daniel Rosza Lang/Levitsky is an activist, artist, and writer based in Brooklyn. Margaret Atwood, The Heart Goes Last… READ MORE
The Opt Out Revolt: Democracy and Education
March 1, 2016
In the United States today, the age of monopoly-finance capital and neoliberal politics, all aspects of social life are being financialized at breakneck speed, while the economy as a whole… READ MORE
The Testing Resistance and Reform Movement
March 1, 2016
Monty Neill, Ed.D., is Executive Director of FairTest, the National Center for Fair and Open Testing. A longtime testing activist, he is the author and editor of many books, reports,… READ MORE
Opting Out of the Education Reform Industry
March 1, 2016
Wayne Au is an associate professor in the School of Educational Studies at the University of Washington at Bothell and an editor of the magazine Rethinking Schools. Jesslyn Hollar is… READ MORE
Should New York City Teachers Support Opt Out? Two Views in the UFT
March 1, 2016
John C. Antush is a public high school teacher in New York City, a delegate in the United Federation of Teachers, and a member of the Movement of Rank and… READ MORE