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We are in the midst of an ongoing public education crisis. There’s a war on public education and an active push to defund public schools. In this video, I discuss America’s long history of anti-intellectualism and how there’s a push to privatize public schools and defund public libraries to keep Americans uneducated. Public schools are failing and it isn’t an accident.
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Understanding Anti-Intellectualism in the U.S.
The End of Public Schools Would Mean the End of the Common Good
School Privatizers Are Leaning Hard Into the Cu
...lture Wars
Column: The right-wing campaign to make our kids dumber
Many Americans know nothing about their government. Here’s a bold way schools can fix that.
Why the Right Hates Public Education
11 Facts About Literacy In America
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The Harmful Impact of School Choice Policies and Charter Schools on Public Schools and Students with Disabilities
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Defunding public libraries: Republicans’ war on reading goes nuclear
Slavery and the Modern-Day Prison Plantation
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