Back to School… with COVID!
Schools across the United States are reopening without coherent plans of dealing with COVID-19 infections.
Oakland: Joy and Terror on the First Day Back at School
The school I work at and love was experiencing hardship long before the pandemic. We almost never had soap or paper towels in classrooms or bathrooms. And now things are worse.
Education: The Fight for our Future
The Crisis in Education The problems in education can’t be solved within a single classroom or school. Education in every society serves to maintain the existing order and to socialize young people to function within it. That means educating children to function in the capitalist system, a system based on the exploitation of the overwhelming […]
School Re-Opening: False Choices
The choice that the system presents to us about school re-opening is a false one. We can do better.
Rutgers University: Using the Pandemic to Make Cuts to Workers
Rutgers University is using the pandemic as an opportunity to save money by making life difficult for its workers.
Virtual Learning is NOT the Same as Being in a Classroom
Students, teachers and parents this fall are facing the consequences of our nation’s leaders’ inability and unwillingness to control the coronavirus pandemic.
Videos of Townhall: Back to School? This is Not Education.
The U.S. education system has been presented as a pathway of opportunity for every generation – especially those from poor and working class backgrounds.
Schools Forced to Choose: Learn Remotely or Risk Lives
As the school year begins, some states and districts have made the unhappy, but smart decision to start the school year remotely.
Arizona School Teachers and Staff Fight Back against COVID
Rather than accept the risks involved for both themselves and students, education workers in an Arizona school district decided enough was enough
June 2020 Education Newsletter
After the Democratic governor of California proposed $18 billion in budget cuts to education, a recent email from the OUSD Superintendent threatened an additional $16.5 million in budget cuts in Oakland.
UC Berkeley: No Cuts! No Furloughs!
As the pandemic continues, University of California is crying poor
France: Back to School… Really?
Schools in France re-opened May 11, at least in the areas where the virus has spread the least
The 2019 Oakland Teachers’ Strike – A Reflection and Analysis
The Oakland teachers strike of 2019 was part of a nationwide movement to defend public education.
Education Under COVID-19 – Exposing a World of Inequalities
As Covid-19 spreads, it’s a big question whether and how students will have classes
The Fight For Quality Education (Feb. 9, 7pm)
The Fight For Quality Education Saturday, February 9, 7PM (Doors open at 6:30PM) South Berkeley Senior Center 2939 Ellis St, Berkeley Public education has been under attack for decades. But last year some things began to change. Teachers in West Virginia went on strike and were joined by school cooks, secretaries, janitors, and bus drivers. […]
Student Debt: You Are Not a Loan
From early on, we are taught that education is a ticket to a better future. But the reality for many of us is much different than the promise. The costs of college are going through the roof, making it unaffordable to many young workers, and leaving many graduates with huge student loan debts. And after […]
What Could Education Be Like?
What would education look like if it was designed to give human beings the possibility to develop all of their talents to the fullest? Growing up, children want to be astronauts, teachers, doctors, musicians, and just about everything else they can think up. But instead children are taught that they are not good at most […]
Public Education Under Attack
We hear the constant discussion from both Democrats and Republicans about the need to reform our education system. Every day there are reports about the failure of education in the U.S. Many politicians point to the schools, trying to blame teachers for their methods and their low standards. Funding the Rich and Gutting Education In […]
The Fight for a Real Education
In the U.S., the public education system has been shaped by different goals. On the one hand, the wealthy elite have required a disciplined work force with enough education to work. But the working class and poor also want education to enrich our lives, to give our children a better future, and ultimately to have […]
Sit Down, Shut Up, Do What You’re Told
The purpose of public education has always been above all to meet the economic needs of the wealthy elite by providing the owners of corporations with a steady supply of workers. Public education was organized as a system not to educate children but to transform them into obedient servants of the corporations. And the architects […]