Education – Page 56 – People's World

Education: is it job training, or preparation for democracy?

July 9, 2015 By Daniel Sankey

If we want our nation to create more people like history's innovators and inventors, we would be wise to teach our children how to think like they did.

Mayors hear biased view of California court decision vs. teacher tenure

July 7, 2015 By Daniel Sankey

There is an answer to public education's poor performance: money; we will have to pay for it, just as we pay for a massive military budget.

From symbol to substance, is a new South coming?

June 30, 2015 By Jesse Jackson

Only continued action to bring us together can insure that we overcome those who would use terror and fear to drive us apart.

Texans exhale as legislative session ends

June 5, 2015

In Texas, labor's victories consist not in getting legislation passed, but in stopping some of the worst of the worst.

Public education key issue in Philly mayoral race

April 28, 2015 By Beth Edelman

This year's election is not shaping up as your "normal" off year primary in the City of Brotherly Love.