After three days of turbulent meetings, the Texas Board of Education on Friday voted to approve a social studies curriculum that will put a conservative stamp on history and economics textbooks, stressing the superiority of American capitalism, questioning the Founding Fathers' commitment to a purely secular government and presenting Republican... » read this article

A top priority on the neoconservative agenda for America is the privatization of social services, and their education initiatives have succeeded in gutting many public schools across the nation.  As a result, the US has lost the education advantage that it enjoyed in the post-World War II era.  According to... » read this article

13 March 2010 The Obama administration is spearheading an unprecedented assault on public education in the US. The White House and Education Secretary Arne Duncan are promoting a nationwide wave of school closures, teacher and staff layoffs, attacks on teachers’ wages and conditions, and an expansion of privately run charter... » read this article

4 March 2010 President Obama’s public support for the mass firing of teachers at a Rhode Island high school is a declaration of war on all teachers and on the working class as a whole. No US president has so openly supported the mass victimization of workers since Ronald Reagan... » read this article

In citywide public hearings sponsored by the New York City’s Department of Education (DOE), parents, teachers and students voiced their anger and opposition to the plans of the DOE to close 20 schools. Dozens of demonstration have taken place throughout the city to protest the DOE’s move. With virtually no... » read this article

24 December 2009 The Obama administration is spearheading an unprecedented assault on public education in the United States. While providing trillions of dollars to Wall Street, Obama has starved states and local governments of funding and pressed them to address their soaring budget deficits by closing public schools and opening... » read this article

In his new book, Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle, Chris Hedges describes the polarities of the two societies he says we are now living in: One side is based in reality and able to separate illusion from truth; the other side is rooted... » read this article

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"Make no mistake, Obama has proposed a class-based system of education." 25 July 2009 On Friday, President Barack Obama announced an assault on public education that would go beyond the Bush administration’s “No Child Left Behind” program. He outlined an education “reform” that would link teacher pay to the test... » read this article

Editor's Note: We are interested in what our readers have to say about the problems in higher education in the US, both before and since the economic collapse. Please let us know your thoughts in the reader comment section below. As a starter,  What do you think about families or students having... » read this article

Editor's Note: In 2003 we joined others, mostly people of color, in Jackson Square to protest the "English Only" rule about to be introduced in Boston's Public School System. The campaign to deny children the right to bilingual teaching was led by Ron Unz, a wealthy and politically-connected California multi-millionaire. Unz' racist, cross-country show demanded... » read this article

Editor’s Note: Hampshire College is among the most prestigious, private, liberal arts colleges in New England, located in historic, Amherst, Massachusetts.  Fifty one years ago, presidents from four distinguished universities in Massachusetts began to “reexamine the assumptions and practices of liberal arts education. In 1965, an alumnus of Amherst College, Harold F. Johnson... » read this article

June 4, 2008 The International Institute for Higher Education in Latin America and the Caribbean (IESALC Spanish acronym) presented on Tuesday 3, in Colombia, the first Higher Education Map in Latina America and the Caribbean (MESALC Spanish acronym). The International Institute for Higher Education in Latin America and the Caribbean (IESALC, Spanish... » read this article

The following article, issued by ISSE, concerns the decline in education worldwide. As is pointed out in the article, the lowering of educational standards in public education is a phenomenon that stems from the wildfire capitalism which today is engulfing the entire world. The over-all importance of worldwide high-standard education has to... » read this article

For most students, borrowing money has become a necessary part of going to college. The average student now graduates with at least $21,000 in debt and it is not at all uncommon for students to graduate with $100,000 in debt or more. At the same time, tuition at private universities... » read this article

18 March 2008 Teachers, parents, students and their supporters are rallying March 19 at City Hall in New York City under the slogan �keep the promises� in opposition to a new round of budget cuts to public education being imposed by state and city governments in an attempt to offset... » read this article

March 3, 2008 During the launching of Mission Ribas Technic, within the framework of the promotion of the VI Graduation of Integral Bachellors of Mission Ribas, held in Teresa Carre�o Theather, the Venezuelan President Hugo Ch�vez informed that Venezuela will count on 58 new universities. The Venezuelan head of State explained that... » read this article

The standard of education in Venezuela is among the highest in the region. Of Venezuelans aged 15 and older, 93.4% can read and write, one of the highest literacy rates in the region. The literacy rate in 2003 was estimated to be 93.8% for males and 93.1% for females. Although... » read this article

  Megan Coulter, a Mascoutah, Ill., eighth-grader, served two after-school detentions last week. Her offense? Hugging two friends and therefore violating the Mascoutah Middle School's ban on public displays of affection. Coulter's case drew dozens of newspaper headlines and landed her on NBC's Today Show. But it also illustrates a... » read this article

1960 - During the eighteenth century, the ideas of freedom, democracy, and self-determination were proclaimed by progressive thinkers; and by the first half of the 1900's these ideas came to fruition in the field of education. The basic principle of such self-determination was the replacement of authority by freedom, to... » read this article