Nation Topics - Education | The Nation

 The classroom and the boardroom are two very different worlds.

Graduating the Class of 2012 onto our overheated planet.

Forty-six percent of Americans believe that God created human beings within the last 10,000 years or so. Worry.

What began as a student walkout against tuition hikes has become a society-wide uprising against austerity, inequality and the police state.

At UC Davis and other institutions, student-led protests against austerity are met with thuggish riot cops and the criminalization of speech. 

The values of the market have come to permeate every aspect of our society.

From the ethnic studies ban to firings over Travyon Martin, a strange hostility toward progressive education is emerging.

 Why is the Obama administration pushing testing on our schools?

Trina Garnett accidentally set a fatal fire when she was 14. That was in 1976. Could today’s Supreme Court ruling against juvenile life without parole finally bring her home?

The state’s top number-cruncher discusses taxes, education and the consequences of drowning government in the bathtub.