Education And Public Education

Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
On Education, Barack Obama is the President of Privatization. Can We Stop Him? Will We?
21 Feb 2013
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon By the time his term is over, President Obama and his Race To The Top program will have forced the closure and privatization of thousands of inner-city schools,…
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Melissa Harris-Perry Buries The Lead Story on National Wave of Public School Closings
31 Jan 2013
By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon When print or broadcast news outlets grab a compelling story, only to distract attention away from what the public needs to know, that's called “burying the lead…
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…
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Obama's Race To The Top Drives Nationwide Wave of School Closings, Teacher Firings
10 Jan 2013
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Among Obama supporters, the gap between popular perceptions of the president's policies and the actual content of those policies is nowhere wider than in public…
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Chicago School Strike is Against Obama “Race To The Top” Agenda of School Privatization and Corporate Education Reform
13 Sep 2012
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Polls say that most Chicagoans support the striking teachers. Mitt Romney says he supports Rahm Emanuel. But why do so many who say they oppose charters,…
The Editors
Standing Up For The People: Chicago Teachers Union Strikes, 1969 - 1987
12 Sep 2012
CTU, the Chicago Teachers Union, is about as real as unions get these days. Thanks to the courageous struggles of its members over generations, it has a history of standing up for its members, for…
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.
Seth Sandronsky
Public Charter Schools Thrive on Corruption and Economic Turmoil
06 Jun 2012
by Seth Sandronsky
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Glen Ford: Corporate Assault on Public Education
17 May 2012
Why are hijacking the formerly left politics of Black America, and corporate takeovers of public education key to the hard right's agenda in the US? In an address this month at NYC's All…