Education
: Amanda Achin Students at UMass Boston are trying to take back their campus center with a round-the-clock occupation.
February 9, 2012 : Megan Behrent New York's "education reform" agenda only pays attention to facts when it suits the city's agenda of demonizing teachers.
February 7, 2012 My heart breaks over comments that if teachers just believed in their students, they could bring them out of poverty.
February 2, 2012 : Sam Coleman A New York City teacher and activist responds to a slanderous article written by a New York Post columnist.
January 30, 2012 Harvard University intends to reorganize its library system by cutting back on the 900 library positions currently in existence.
January 30, 2012 : Elizabeth Schulte The No Child Left Behind law ushered in a new era in our schools—an era of high-stakes testing, school closures and attacks on teachers’ unions.
January 26, 2012 Students at UC Berkeley started the semester with an occupation of a campus library that won an increase in library hours.
January 25, 2012 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 If University of Michigan President Mary Sue Coleman was serious about states investing in higher education, Occupy UM wouldn't have to mic-check the regents.
January 10, 2012 More than 100 teachers, students and members of Occupy Austin gathered to protest plans for charter schools in East Austin.
January 3, 2012 : Alexander Super The Panel for Educational Policy got a visit from teachers, students and parents angry about New York City public schools.
December 16, 2011 : Dan Trocolli Hundreds of high school students from all over Seattle walked out of class to protest another round of proposed cuts in education funding.
December 16, 2011 As the frigid winter made its presence known in upstate New York, so did student members of Occupy Rochester.
December 14, 2011 Students and workers at Columbia College have come together to demand the administration address their grievances.
December 14, 2011 : Lee Sustar Unelected school boards in Chicago and New York are set to order the closure of supposedly low-performing schools--and open new charters.
December 13, 2011 : C. Austin Knudson Protests at University of California campuses that disrupted a Regents' teleconference were followed up by occupations.
December 1, 2011 : Bill Mullen The events at the University of California and Penn State are predictable in an era of neoliberal higher education.
November 30, 2011 The University of California Board of Regents had to cut short teleconference meetings after student protesters took over.
November 29, 2011 : Gary Lapon An Obama administration plan focused on student debt won't do much to solve the long-run problems people face.
November 7, 2011 : Emily Giles New York City school officials came face to face with the Occupy movement at a Panel for Education Policy meeting.
October 31, 2011 Most teachers recognize the influence of the uber-rich 1 percent on "reform" measures like charter schools and merit pay.
October 20, 2011 : Alex Schmaus A San Francisco student challenges the claims of an AlterNet writer that U.S. youth resistance has been crushed.
August 22, 2011 : Adam Sanchez The real agenda of corporate-backed education "reform" groups like Stand for Children is union-busting and austerity.
July 21, 2011 : Petrino DiLeo A new for-profit investment fund aimed at building charter schools marks an ominous new step for the school privatization movement.
July 6, 2011 The battle over school privatization has come to a head in the fight to save Clay Middle School from the charter operator Green Dot.
June 29, 2011
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