Young people are being suspended, expelled and charged with criminal offenses for behavior as innocuous as doodling on a desk. image: AlterNet Rania Khalek AlterNet…
Bohemian Travelers image Jacque Wilson CNN Six-year-old Karina Ricci doesn’t ever have a typical day. She has no schedule to follow, no lessons to complete….
The ruling elite has created social institutions that have subdued young Americans and broken their spirit of resistance. Dees Illustration Bruce E. Levine AlterNet Traditionally,…
Rady Ananda, Contributing Writer Activist Post n January, Representative John D. Keenan of Salem, Massachusetts introduced a bill to allow students not immunized to be…
In 2009 California established Harvey Milk Day to recognize the efforts of the slain gay rights activist. © AFP/Getty Images/File Justin Sullivan AFP LOS ANGELES…
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Cameras in the toilets; CCTV in the classroom; pupils’ fingerprints kept in a database . . . Can’t happen here? Think again, because the surveillance…
CNN Editor’s note: Dale J. Stephens is a 19-year-old entrepreneur leading UnCollege, a social movement supporting self-directed higher education and building RadMatter, a platform to…
In the face of budget cuts and rising costs, public schools across the country are making ends meet by nickel-and-diming students Wiki Image The Week…
The American Dream In the United States today, our public schools are not very good at educating our students, but they sure are great training…
“There is no fundamental right of parents to be the exclusive provider of information regarding sexual matters to their children, either independent of their right…
Wiki Image Bryan Walsh The Heritage Foundation “Zero tolerance” policies continue to result in injustices to our nation’s public school students. In one of the…
Robin Marty Care2 A homeless mother in Connecticut has been charged with theft of “education expenses” totaling nearly $16,000 after it was discovered that she…
Wikimedia Commons Image Chris Hedges Truthdig A nation that destroys its systems of education, degrades its public information, guts its public libraries and turns its…