Why do some societies try to turn education into a commodity, while others recognize it as a necessary social good? In this interview, Bob Kuttner speaks with Cathie Martin, professor of political ...

Today’s lesson is: thanks to the absence of leadership from the political class; the failure to nurture an empowering dialogue between high school and college teachers that might have a broad impact ...

As we near the end of this first year of Trump’s second administration, we face a new challenge: sustaining and building resistance that weakens the coalition that elected Trump and a new wave of ...

Subscribe for analysis that goes beyond the noise. This time the hosts interview political science Professor Neil Kraus about his book The Fantasy Economy: Neoliberalism, Inequality, and the Education ...

There has been a growing concentration of high-achieving students attending selective public schools of choice as part of the neoliberal reforms of education. While this growth has had an eroding ...

The United States’ education system was originally built on the idea of civic education, where students were educated to become active participants in American democracy. Since the advent of ...

The purpose of education in a neoliberal age is to produce producers. I published a book last year that said that, by and large, elite American universities no longer provide their students with a ...

School privatization efforts are making dangerous advances in states like Florida and Arizona. Neoliberal education reforms that have degraded public schools, from high-stakes testing to corporatized ...