National

  • The not-so-random violence in U.S. cities

    The death of a Chicago teenager has highlighted the gun violence plaguing Black and Latino communities--but no one is looking at the real causes.

  • What must be done to stop climate change?

    One week ahead of a critical protest in Washington, we are at a potential turning point in the movement for ecological justice and environmental sanity.

  • Legislators against testing?

    Teachers, parents and students who oppose the standardized testing frenzy are finding unexpected support in Texas.

  • Teach for America isn't welcome in my class

    Until Teach for America becomes committed to training lifetime educators, I will not allow them to recruit in my classes.

  • The kings of corporate welfare

    Big business profits from a little-talked-about, but extremely lucrative array of subsidies, tax breaks and other handouts from governments at every level.

  • Treating kids as criminals

    The arrest of 7-year-old Wilson Reyes isn't an abnormality, but an all-too-common example of how children are criminalized.

  • Recovery from the bottom up

    Occupy Sandy activists who stepped up while government agencies slept in want to keep the recovery from becoming top down.

  • The new Jane Crow

    Hundreds of pregnant women have had their rights taken away by police, prosecutors and judges claiming the authority to control their bodies.

  • Enforcement still comes first

    The proposals this week for immigration "reform" put border security ahead of even a restricted "path to citizenship."

  • Why testing fails our kids

    The pledge by Seattle teachers to boycott the MAP test is part of a groundswell of opposition and activism against high-stakes standardized testing.

  • Equality across New England?

    Rhode Island is finally making progress toward becoming the last state in the region to enact full marriage equality.

  • Telling the whole truth about Whole Foods

    As Whole Foods workers, we deserve to be treated with the same dignity and respect that we give to our customers.

  • No school left behind

    A New York City teacher explains what his top priorities would be if he were appointed the new Secretary of Education.

  • Standing against the Greek fascists

    Anti-racists took part in an international day of protest on January 19 against the Greek fascist party Golden Dawn.

  • Threatened for protesting the testing mania

    Teachers at Garfield High School and other Seattle schools are facing a 10-day suspension for their pledge not to administer the MAP test.

  • Enough of this ceaseless testing

    Two parents of Chicago Public Schools students explain why they are opting out of a battery of standardized tests.

  • Why we're boycotting the MAP test

    Garfield's teachers are preparing students for real-life tests--and so we reject multiple-choice rituals that fail to measure progress or anything else.

  • Left to survive on the streets

    An epidemic of homelessness has left LGBTQ youth vulnerable to dire impacts such as suicide and sexual assault.

  • What CPS calls "underutilized"

    Gale Elementary School in Chicago faces closure because school officials say it's "underutilized." Here's why they're wrong.

  • Maximum lies about the minimum wage

    Corporate America claims it can't afford a raise in the minimum wage, but this is just one more lie to avoid paying a living wage.

  • Supporting the teachers' test boycott

    Some of the most respected figures in education are backing a boycott of the MAP test by high school teachers in Seattle.

  • A new threat for Lynne Stewart

    Lawyer Lynne Stewart, incarcerated in federal prison on bogus "terrorism" charges, has learned of a new health problem.

  • What's behind gun violence?

    Does the Obama administration have answers to the problem of gun violence in America--or will their policies contribute to the problem?

  • Teaching by the numbers

    Standardized testing is expensive, time-consuming and ineffective at measuring student progress. So why is it spreading?

  • A consummate boundary-crosser

    He was an Internet freedom activist who believed restricting the flow of knowledge only made the powerful more powerful still.