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Music for America (MfA), a nonprofit group working to get out the youth vote in the hope of unseating George W.

Discredited and broke, the school privatizer found an unlikely white knight.

Iran's elections, scheduled for February 20, have provoked the gravest political crisis in that country in twenty years.

If only they are bold enough, Democrats can win on their own wedge issues.

A questionable plan to wire poor schools has turned into a business boondoggle.

Labor studies programs are under attack by a well-financed right-wing campaign.

Zero tolerance policies have created a "lockdown environment" in schools.

If "no child left behind" meant what it said, it would offer help, not
sanctions.

Russell Simmons was never a young voter. The 46-year-old hip-hop tycoon
cast his first vote in a presidential election seven years ago, he says,
at the age of 39.

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Student activists are still pushing for a complete withdrawal of a Beijing-backed, "brainwashing" curriculum.

October 8, 2012

Students at the University of Arizona fear recent riots may stir anti-Muslim sentiments on campus. 

September 28, 2012

NYU has refused to present any kind of business plan for its 2031 expansion plan.

September 27, 2012

The Chicago Teacher Strike was just the first step in a march against educational inequality.

September 24, 2012

The real victory in Quebec may be students realizing their own power in organizing. 

 

September 20, 2012

The children struggling the hardest in school also happen to be some of the poorest in the country.

September 17, 2012

Tavis Smiley and Dr. Cornel West’s Poverty Tour 2.0 arrived in Virginia, and high school students had a lot to say about their own struggles with poverty. 

September 14, 2012

A strike in the country's most segregated school district is about more than union politics. 

September 14, 2012

66 percent of Chicago parents back teachers and their union, while Romney-Ryan back wrongheaded Rahm Emmanel—and the fantasy that parents don't like public education.

September 13, 2012

Twenty-six thousand teachers and school staff are expected to join the picket lines in Chicago Monday. Why? 

September 10, 2012
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