Here’s what happens when corporations begin to control education. "When I approached professors to discuss research projects addressing organic agriculture in farmer's markets, the first one told me that 'no one cares about people selling food in parking lots on the other side of the train tracks,’” said a PhD... » read this article

The Social Security program…represents our commitment as a society to the belief that workers should not live in dread that a disability, death, or old age could leave them or their families destitute.   – President Jimmy Carter, December 20, 1977. [This law] assures the elderly that America will always... » read this article

No wonder those Quebec student protestors have been spooking the English Canadian establishment. If they get their way, the same ideas could catch on here, leaving the best-laid plans for austerity in tatters. What seems to particularly gall some English Canadian commentators is the fact that the Quebec students —... » read this article

Since the 2010 elections, when Republicans took control of many states, there has been an explosion of legislation advancing privatization of public schools and stripping teachers of job protections and collective bargaining rights. Even some Democratic governors, seeing the strong rightward drift of our politics, have jumped on the right-wing... » read this article

On an unseasonably warm day in late March, a quarter of a million postsecondary students and their supporters gathered in the streets of Montreal to protest against the Liberal government’s plan to raise tuition fees by 75% over five years.  As the crowd marched in seemingly endless waves from Place... » read this article

One of the biggest con games going on at the moment is the sustained attack on the U.S. public school system.  It’s being perpetrated by predatory entrepreneurs (disguised as “concerned citizens” and “education reformers”) hoping to persuade the parents of school-age children that the only way their kids are going... » read this article

It's not enough that the biotech industry -- led by multinational corporations such as Monsanto, Dow, Syngenta, BAS, and Dupont -- is poisoning our food and our planet. It's also poisoning young minds. In a blatant attempt at brainwashing, the Council for Biotechnology Information (CBI) has widely circulated what it... » read this article

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