Reflections on the Racial Web of Discipline
One of the most powerful metaphors in critical education literature is “the school to prison pipeline.” The phrase conjures a vivid, unambiguous image, the meaning of which few would debate: poor and...
View ArticleMilitarism and Education Normal
With the military’s ready and waiting personnel, infrastructure, and resources, no one should be surprised that the JROTC [Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps] is now offered as the alternative to...
View ArticleTesting, Privatization, and the Future of Public Schooling
Standardized testing occupies a central place in the ongoing reorganization—or demolition—of public education in the United States. The key question is not whether leading sectors of capital—major...
View Article2. Lessons from the New Corporate Schooling
As the articles in this section indicate, the new corporate schooling in the United States combines many of the worst aspects of capitalist schooling in a period of economic stagnation,...
View ArticleAnother Education Is Happening
The mainstream media has created the myth that community people are waiting for Superman, the White House, or state-appointed Emergency Financial Managers to resolve the escalating crises in our...
View ArticleEducation: The Great Obsession
We are reprinting this essay by Grace Lee Boggs from the September 1970 issue of Monthly Review with only slight editing because of the historical perspective it offers and what we regard as its direct...
View ArticleEducation and the Structural Crisis of Capital
Today’s conservative movement for the reform of public education in the United States, and in much of the world, is based on the prevailing view that public education is in a state of emergency and in...
View Article1. Education and Capitalism
Schooling in the twenty-first century United States is not the product mainly of educational philosophies and resources—together with whatever imagination and initiative that teachers, students,...
View ArticleEducation Under Fire: Introduction
Education at the beginning of the twenty-first century is in crisis and contestation. The economic instability of capitalism—reflected in the slowdown in the economic growth trend since the mid-1970s,...
View ArticleJuly-August 2011, Volume 63, Number 3
» Notes from the Editors buy this issue For MR this [special issue] represents only a starting point and we hope to continue to address the education question in future issues—not only in relation to...
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