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Obama to students: Dream big and make us proud

September 9, 2009

In a much-anticipated speech, President Barack Obama delivered a back-to-school address to nearly 56 million students, K-12th grade, nationwide Sep. 8th, live from Wakefield High School in Arlington, Va. Most of the country's 15,000 school districts...

Texas may bar students learning about Cesar Chavez, Thurgood Marshall

July 17, 2009

United Farmworkers founder César Chávez is an unfitting role model for students, and former Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall is not an appropriate historical figure. So say “expert reviewers” in their report to the Texas State...

UFT, Green Dot sign pioneering contract for NYC charter school

July 2, 2009 By W. J. Levay

The nation’s preeminent charter school organization, Green Dot Public Schools, and its largest teacher union local, the United Federation of Teachers, signed an innovative and pioneering collective bargaining agreement on June 23 for Green Dot’s New...

Bringing common sense back to school discipline

November 18, 2005 By Olga Akselrod And Judith Browne

In March of this year, many of us watched in horror a nationally broadcast videotape of 5-year-old Ja’eisha Scott being handcuffed by police officers and tearfully taken away for throwing a temper tantrum at school. Far...

Black history and Marxist education

February 22, 2002 By Dee Miles

The relationship between Black history and Marxist education is quite profound. Marx elaborated quite extensively on the connection between the slave trade and slavery to the primitive accumulation of capital. Marxists provide the most credible explanations...