Brian Jones The occasion of a day to honor Dr. King is an annual opportunity to remind ourselves that equity in education--and elsewhere--is possible.
January 16, 2012 One year after NBC's "Education Nation" summit on public schools, the "reformers" have had a bad year--but they're still pushing their agenda.
October 10, 2011 The Save Our Schools march drew thousands of educators and activists to Washington, D.C., to talk about real education reform.
August 2, 2011 A controversial biography by the late Manning Marable provides a fascinating account of Malcolm X's life story and political development.
May 24, 2011 Barack Obama is back on the campaign trail, but he needs some new slogans--because "hope" and "change" have been emptied of any content.
April 26, 2011 Make no mistake about it--for those of us who are determined to defend public education, this is our Egypt moment.
February 24, 2011 Education "reform" has been referred to by various terms: privatization, deregulation, neoliberalism. Karl Marx had another name for it: capitalism.
February 2, 2011 More than 40 years after the civil rights movement shined a spotlight on it, the racial achievement gap is alive and well.
January 13, 2011 Once you get past the hype, the war on public education is motivated by the same imperatives--power and profit--driving U.S. wars abroad.
November 10, 2010 Thousands of people in Harlem are about to lose their green space--to the construction of yet another charter school.
October 22, 2010 Supporters of charter schools claim they are fighting a "civil rights" struggle, but would Martin Luther King sign up for such a "movement"?
October 19, 2010 The sacrificial teacher on a televised panel discussion packed with advocates of anti-union school "reform" has a few more points to make.
October 8, 2010 A SocialistWorker.org columnist explains what he wants to say--if he gets the chance--at a televised panel discussion on the future of teaching.
September 27, 2010 Two leading Black members of Congress are accused of violating ethical standards--but the biggest scandals in national politics are perfectly legal.
August 18, 2010 What happened to Shirley Sherrod highlights the explosive nature of the politics of race and racism in the U.S. today.
July 26, 2010 Anyone who spent any time with Howard Zinn knows of his tremendous generosity of spirit, and of course, his legendary humor.
February 5, 2010 A conservative Web site accused the "people's historian" of perpetrating a distorted "version" of history, but it's the truth that they're scared of.
December 16, 2009 At a fancy gala thrown by the Harlem Success Academy, I heard charter school supporters use the legacy of civil rights struggles to sell privatization.
November 13, 2009 If there's any idea worth rethinking, it's Whole Foods CEO John Mackey's claim that our needs are best met through the unfettered free market.
September 3, 2009 There may be differences within the limits of "mainstream" ruling-class thinking, but figures like Obama would never challenge those limits themselves.
July 29, 2009 Hubert Harrison, the Black socialist from the turn of the 20th century, was many things: author, editor, public speaker, educator and activist.
July 6, 2009 Wealthy proponents of charter schools claim they want to advance racial justice--even as public schools become more segregated.
April 30, 2009 They're often called utopians, but Marx and Engels were the first to bring socialism down from the clouds and explain how it could be established in the real world.
March 4, 2009 Marx's Marxism is the theoretical product of his practical efforts to build a movement for change, and his observations of struggles taking place around him.
February 25, 2009 In the last 150 years of U.S. history, you can't point to a generation whose most active, radical layers have not been drawn to the ideas of Karl Marx.
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