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Chicago Southeast Side rally for teachers (with video)

September 2, 2011 By Scott Marshall

Teachers, steelworkers, electricians, firefighters and other union members, their families and supporters, rallied here on the Southeast Side to defend teachers and union rights.

Cheating, testing, and what’s wrong with schools

August 2, 2011 By Adam Whitaker

Since the start of No Child Left Behind the perceived solution to our education situation has been clear: competition.

Pete Seeger on Woody Guthrie, youth and the environment

June 16, 2011 By David Kupfer

"These were the original verses, which Woody had written. He sang them several different ways. The way I learned it is how he wrote it, mentioning private property."

GOP panel cuts 43 education programs

June 6, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg

The GOP-run House Education and the Workforce Committee voted 23-16 on party lines May 25 to eliminate 43 elementary and secondary education programs.

People power takes over Wall Street

May 13, 2011 By Gabe Falsetta

An outpouring of 10,000 New Yorkers swept into lower Manhattan on May 12 to demand that Wall Street and the big billionaires pay their fair share.