Education
The Classroom in Crisis
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.
Workplace Training in the Age of AI
To support the work of the future, we must promote workers’ skills as crucial to technological progress.
Bringing Abolition to the Museum
Artist-activist Shellyne Rodriguez speaks with Billy Anania about museum labor practices and how Strike MoMA imagines a future of art for the people.
The New Politics of Higher Education
The right’s fantasy of left power on campus has never been accurate.
A More Perfect Meritocracy
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.
Bolsonaro’s War Against Reason
The Brazilian president’s offensive against universities threatens democracy and recalls the dark years of the country’s dictatorship.
Beyond the Neoliberal University
Astra Taylor talks with Rutgers faculty union president Todd Wolfson about organizing academic communities in the age of COVID-19.
Black Bereavement, White Condolences
“This sudden attention to the ongoing grief of black life can also feel like a slap in the face. Didn’t you notice we were dying?”
A Tale of Two Messages
University administrators must be held accountable for their decisions to reopen campuses.
Teaching African American Literature During COVID-19
“In a season of unimaginable death, my students emerged as visionaries. I hope to live to see the world they create.”
Not Persuasion, But Power: Against “Making the Case”
How can we “make the case” to a society that doesn’t have ears to hear it?
Deaths of Despair
Boston Review talks with Nobel Prize-winning economist Angus Deaton about COVID-19, the relationship between culture, financial hardship, and health, and why capitalism’s flaws are proving fatal for America’s working class.
Resisting Distance Learning
Technological changes threaten the interests of students and teachers alike.
Higher Education in the Age of Coronavirus
COVID-19 will accelerate a number of troubling longer-term trends—including less public funding and a migration of courses online.
High Stakes Tests Aren’t Better—And They Never Will Be
Accountability is important. But tests that tie school funding to student performance only make things worse.
Loving Latin at the End of the World
The beauty of the language should not keep us from reckoning with its history.
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