The crisis here spells disaster for the future of public education.

Institutional reform is no match for pervasive structural inequality.

In her scholarship, mentoring, and activism, Farah Jasmine Griffin brings a praxis of radical love to an unequal academy.

Building public trust requires far more than the conveyance of facts and instruction in scientific thinking.

“Don’t Say Gay” laws can be traced to the Reagan-era crusade to put “parents' rights” before the interests of children.

Laws controlling what schools teach about race and gender show an awareness that classrooms are sites of nation-building. During the Cold War, El Paso public schools knew this too when they taught the children of former Nazis how to be white Americans.

The Judge Rotenberg Center, a Massachusetts school, still uses electric shock therapy to punish disabled students. How can an entire field of mental health accept this as fine?

Education is not inherently liberatory: it has always been an arena for broader struggles over who has access to knowledge and to what ends learning is put.

Artist-activist Shellyne Rodriguez speaks with Billie Anania about museum labor practices and how Strike MoMA imagines a future of art for the people.

Why the left’s turn from higher education has coincided with a newfound conservative appreciation for it.

Two new books take aim at the moral failures of meritocracy. But we can advocate for a more just society without giving up on merit.

How faculty retirement policies shape racial and gender diversity on campus.

Astra Taylor talks with Rutgers faculty union president Todd Wolfson about organizing academic communities in the age of COVID-19.

“In a season of unimaginable death, my students emerged as visionaries. I hope to live to see the world they create." 

The beauty of the language should not keep us from reckoning with its history.

One man’s struggle to earn a degree while incarcerated shows how far tough-on-crime policies go to prevent prisoners from having a second chance.

Elitism can't be democratized.

Michelle Obama’s memoir, Becoming, reduces racial inequality to a matter of psychological impairment that can be overcome through grit and grin.

What happens when a school district votes to arm teachers? A Rust Belt educator takes us through the grim realities of training to kill one of his own students.

Striking teachers and student activists have a common enemy.

The best teaching is always intimate. Today's universities make it difficult to talk about that.

By attacking higher education, the new tax bill belies the GOP's ambitious political motivations. The investment we make in young adults today, after all, determines the electorate we have in the future.

Bad readers were not born; they were created. To know them is to understand literature and politics in postwar America.

When college is a prerequisite for getting a job that pays better than minimum wage, we cannot stop until it is free and accessible to all.

Three books draw a disturbing picture of America as a system of compounding inequality driven by a hereditary meritocracy of professional elites.