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  Detroit (USA): A Recipe for Killing a School System

  1 July 2015, by FEELEY Dianne

  WHILE MAINSTREAM MEDIA paint Detroit as a city “coming back” — meaning that the gentrification strategy of remaking downtown will trickle down in benefits to the neighborhoods that comprise the majority of Detroit’s 140 square miles — this corporate-driven strategy overlooks the main issues that (...)

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  Around the BDS movement in support of the Palestinian people’s struggle – A Political Witch-Hunt in the Name of “Academic Freedom”: In Defense of the American Studies Association

  5 February 2014, by WALD Alan

  The following essay will appear in the forthcoming March-April 2014 issue of Against the Current. The editors look forward to further dialogue around the complex issues raised here. While this article’s focus is the controversy around the recent resolution adopted by the American Studies (...)

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  Austerity in US universities or preparing students for precarious lives

  24 January 2014, by CAIRNS James, SEARS Alan

  Almost everywhere you look around the world, policy-makers are introducing big changes to university systems and pondering deeper transformation.It isn’t surprising that these changes take different forms on campuses in countries as different as Canada, Britain, the United States, Chile, Greece, (...)

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  USA: Support Worker Education at CUNY - Response to Corey Robin - Still Another Perspective on Worker Ed Program

  31 July 2013, by NESS Immanuel

  Today Portside is posting another comment on Brooklyn College plans for the Graduate Center for Worker Education. This response comes from Manny Ness to his BC colleague Robin Corey’s statement, posted yesterday [see below on ESSF]. The focus for the debate on what is the nature of workers’ (...)

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  US: homeless women sent to prison for 12 years for sending her son to school – The Case of Tanya McDowell

  29 February 2012, by Ryan

  Several days ago, Connecticut mother Tanya McDowell was convicted of stealing an education for her kindergarten age son. McDowell was sentenced to 12 years in prison. She was found to have submitted a “fraudulent” address in order to gain her son’s admittance to an elementary school in Norwalk, (...)

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  USA – Got Dough? How Billionaires Rule Our Schools

  1 November 2011, by BARKAN Joanne

  THE COST of K–12 public schooling in the United States comes to well over $500 billion per year. So, how much influence could anyone in the private sector exert by controlling just a few billion dollars of that immense sum? Decisive influence, it turns out. A few billion dollars in private (...)

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  Education in the US: Still Separate and Unequal, Generations After Brown v. Board

  17 May 2011, by HING Julianne

  Today is the 57th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, the landmark Supreme Court decision that declared racial segregation in U.S. public schools unconstitutional. Also today, American schools are more segregated than they were four decades ago.
  If eradicating racial segregation in (...)