Education And Public Education

What's the Difference Between Teach For America and a Scab Temp Agency?
24 Jul 2013
A Black Agenda Radio Commentary by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Back in the days of organizing meat packing, steel and auto workers, employers couldn't use tax-exempt donations to transport,…
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Chicago Teachers Build a Movement
22 May 2013
Chicago teachers see themselves as engaged in a movement to defend the public sphere from corporate acquisition. “Wall Street hedge funders and other speculators are betting heavily on school…
School Privatization Fraud: Michelle Rhee May Yet Join Beverly Hall in the Dock
10 Apr 2013
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford “Michelle Rhee may yet pay for her the damage she has inflicted on society and its children.” The former DC schools superintendent and…
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Why Isn't Closing 129 Chicago Public Schools National News?
27 Feb 2013
It's an obvious question, with an easy answer. Our nation's bipartisan political elite have decided to privatize public education. They know the only way they can execute this deeply unpopular policy…
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Seattle Teachers Boycott of Unfair & Unnecessary High Stakes Tests Spreads to Second High School
30 Jan 2013
Teachers in Seattle are standing up to the high stakes testing regime and refusing to administer an unnecessary test. Students and parents have lined up to support them, and the boycott has already…
Ten Years of No Child Left Behind: Disaster Capitalism in the Schools
04 Jul 2012
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Chicago Teachers Gear Up for a Fight
13 Jun 2012
The Chicago Teachers Union has gotten permission from its membership to strike.
Charters Have Nothing to do With Community Control of Schools
09 May 2012
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford
The Corporate Anti-Education Sham of Teach For America, Part 1 of 2
25 Apr 2012
by Education Radio Founded in 1990 by Wendy Kopp, Teach For America has become the personnel agency for corporate school reform. School districts fire experienced, often black teachers to hire…
The Ongoing Sham of Teach For America, Part 2 0f 2
25 Apr 2012
by Education Radio Teach For America hijacks the catch-phrases of the social justice movement in the service of corporate "school reform" and ultimate privatization of public education. In Part…