Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, par STONE Peter
PragerU is not accredited but has become a key tool in pushing false claims to youngsters – and raked in $200m from 2018 to 2022
A rightwing media outlet promoting climate-crisis denialism and other “anti-woke” staples to young students and adults via social media has become a fundraising (…)
, by GRAFF Harvey J.
Across the media and elsewhere, we hear of organized efforts to ban books, especially for school-aged young people, and to censor school curricula, primarily history and civics
New currents of resistance, especially by young people, rise in response. We hear too little about them. (…)
, by LA BOTZ Dan
Local school board meetings in the United States have for the last three months become the site of intense arguments and even violence as parents fight—sometimes with their fists—over both health policies and teaching about race.
This wave of fighting began when schools opened in late August (…)
, by FEELEY Dianne
WHILE MAINSTREAM MEDIA paint Detroit as a city “coming back” — meaning that the gentrification strategy of remaking downtown will trickle down in benefits to the neighborhoods that comprise the majority of Detroit’s 140 square miles — this corporate-driven strategy overlooks the main issues that (…)
, by WALD Alan
The following essay will appear in the forthcoming March-April 2014 issue of Against the Current. The editors look forward to further dialogue around the complex issues raised here. While this article’s focus is the controversy around the recent resolution adopted by the American Studies (…)
, by CAIRNS James, SEARS Alan
Almost everywhere you look around the world, policy-makers are introducing big changes to university systems and pondering deeper transformation.It isn’t surprising that these changes take different forms on campuses in countries as different as Canada, Britain, the United States, Chile, Greece, (…)
, by NESS Immanuel
Today Portside is posting another comment on Brooklyn College plans for the Graduate Center for Worker Education. This response comes from Manny Ness to his BC colleague Robin Corey’s statement, posted yesterday [see below on ESSF]. The focus for the debate on what is the nature of workers’ (…)
, by Ryan
Several days ago, Connecticut mother Tanya McDowell was convicted of stealing an education for her kindergarten age son. McDowell was sentenced to 12 years in prison. She was found to have submitted a “fraudulent” address in order to gain her son’s admittance to an elementary school in Norwalk, (…)
, by BARKAN Joanne
THE COST of K–12 public schooling in the United States comes to well over $500 billion per year. So, how much influence could anyone in the private sector exert by controlling just a few billion dollars of that immense sum? Decisive influence, it turns out. A few billion dollars in private (…)
, by HING Julianne
Today is the 57th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, the landmark Supreme Court decision that declared racial segregation in U.S. public schools unconstitutional. Also today, American schools are more segregated than they were four decades ago.
If eradicating racial segregation in (…)
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