How did academic publishers acquire these feudal powers? Who are the most ruthless capitalists in the Western world? Whose monopolistic practices makes WalMart look like a corner shop and Rupert Murdoch look like a socialist? You won’t guess the answer in a month of Sundays. While there are plenty of... » read this article

Editor's Note: Our accomplished columnist and writer, Siv O'Neall republished this video on Axis of Logic. When most people hear the word "anarchy" or "anarchist" nowadays, they think of a young man dressed in black, hooded and bashing something in. The media has narrowed anarchy to that image and some... » read this article

Editor's Note: The following article describes more gouging by the state for what is billed as "public funded education." It describes substantial increases to existing tuition, making very difficult or even denying poor and working class students their right to higher education. But it only addresses the cost of tuition.... » read this article

Michele Bachmann, as virtually everyone knows, is currently deciding whether she's going to make a run for the Tea Party, oops, I meant to say, Republican, nomination for president. What most don't know, though, is that her educational policies are being challenged by an amazing high school student from Baton... » read this article

Seventy thousand teachers in the Mexican state of Oaxaca struck May 23, demanding better funding for their students. The strike began with a march from four different points to the city’s square, where the educators rallied and then spread out to put pressure on both government and business. Teachers blockaded... » read this article

Editor's Note: It looks like the Summer of 2011 could be a hot one. We lead this news series on the California protests with an exchange between 2 readers of the CBS Sacramento article. The two reader comments show how reactionary state governments across the country have succeeded in dividing... » read this article

Editor's comment: In the United States, Federal, state and local governments get meaner and meaner every day. Tonya McDowell, homeless and living in a van wanted a better education for her son. So she used her girlfriend's address to enroll him in a higher income school district. She was arrested by... » read this article

20 April 2011 Using dictatorial powers recently granted by the Michigan legislature, Detroit Public Schools Emergency Financial Manager Robert Bobb ordered layoff notices sent to all 5,466 teachers in the district. Nonrenewal notices also went to 248 DPS administrators. In a statement posted on the DPS web site Bobb said... » read this article

(Image via usprisonculture.com) The state lawmakers who are pushing hard for "austerity" aren't so much enemies of government “waste” as they are expert money launderers in the business of politics. Education is at the center of their shell game. Across the country, conservatives are fixated on a curious formula for... » read this article

HAVANA, Nov 12, 2010 (IPS) - Valuing and sharing common people's knowledge and experience, awakening critical consciousness and finding paths for effective social participation are the processes used by more than 1,000 people in Cuba working in Popular Education, a liberating approach to education developed by Brazilian educator Paulo Freire... » read this article

HAVANA, Cuba, Nov 11 (acn) Salvadoran Education Minister, Salvador Sanchez, said he was confident in the success of an ongoing national literacy campaign, which is based on the “Yes, I can” Cuban learning method. Sanchez, also vice-president of this Central American nation, told Prensa Latina news agency that there are... » read this article

In 2005, UNESCO affirmed that more than 95 percent of the Venezuelan population is literate, qualifying the country for the title of “Territory Free of Illiteracy”. The free government program, Mission Robinson, is largely responsible for the success, teaching more than 1.5 million people to read and write in the... » read this article

28 October 2010 Hundreds of Washtenaw Community College (WCC) employees face the imminent privatization of their jobs by the school administration. The move, which will have a devastating impact on the already low-paid WCC workforce, is part of an escalating nationwide attack on teachers’ compensation and working conditions. At the... » read this article

Private Vocational College—Kaplan operates vocational training programs that over enroll students using Federal loans that leave low-income student indebted and unemployed. A whistleblower source has come forward to expose how CHI/Kaplan, in Broomsall, Pennsylvania over-enrolled students by the hundreds and then abandoned them before internship placement.  The sources stated,  “I’m... » read this article

19 October 2010 More than 200 parents, teachers, students and administrators attended a community meeting on Saturday at the Frederick Pilot Middle School in Dorchester. The meeting, organized by the superintendent of the Boston Public Schools (BPS), was billed as an opportunity for parents and teachers to voice their opinions... » read this article

In October, a judge will decide whether saving one means sacrificing the other. Fisk University is on the brink. The endowment of the tiny, historic school in Nashville, which opened its doors to newly freed slaves in 1865, is depleted. Every building on the campus where poet Nikki Giovanni, historian John... » read this article

US university halts DNA plans An American university has been forced to halt a plan to DNA test new students and give them the results following a backlash by public health officials, genetic watchdogs and privacy groups. Under the University of California, Berkeley programme called “Bring Your Genes to Cal”... » read this article

MIAMI — Thousands of students at the University of Puerto Rico who went on strike two months ago to oppose severe budget cuts declared victory on Thursday after reaching an agreement with administrators. As part of a deal brokered by a court-appointed mediator, students would end their strike — one... » read this article

Some days ago the poker faced policemen stationed around the Rio Piedras campus of the University of Puerto Rico, were being showered with flowers and petals. The perpetrators were part of a makeshift community of some 300 students sharing food, water and shelter inside the campus in a peaceful protest... » read this article

VASHON ISLAND, Wash. - When they're outside, the children in Erin Kenny's class don't head for cover if it rains or snows. They stay right where they are - in a private five-acre forest. It's their classroom. They spend three hours a day, four days a week here, a free-flowing... » read this article