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Howard Zinn: A Public Intellectual Who Mattered

Posted Thu, 01/28/2010 - 12:24 by Henry Giroux

Read my article on the work of Howard Zinn at truthout.org:
http://www.truthout.org/howard-zinn-a-public-intellectual-who-mattered56463

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Rethinking Education as the Practice of Freedom: Paulo Freire and the Promise of Critical Pedagogy

Posted Mon, 01/04/2010 - 10:54 by Henry Giroux


 
This article on Paulo Freire and critical pedagogy is a response to the recent right wing attacks on critical pedagogy that have emerged recently in the United States.
 
READ AT TRUTHOUT.ORG
 

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Neoliberal capitalism has reached a stage where it will contribute to afflicting children with life threatening diseases just to

Posted Wed, 11/11/2009 - 08:43 by Henry Giroux

 

Neoliberal capitalism has reached a stage where it will contribute to afflicting children with life threatening diseases just to make a profit. This is a mode of capitalism that is on the side of death in the name of capital accumulation.

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It’s a Fork, It’s a Spoon, It’s a ... Weapon?

Posted Tue, 10/13/2009 - 10:00 by Henry Giroux

Zero tolerance policies are largely in place because schools are increasingly being modeled after prisons, preparing poor white and minority kids for their eventual push into either the criminal justice system or prison. Where's Arnie Duncan on this one?

Read about it in the New York Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/12/education/12discipline.html?_r=1

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Youth in a Suspect Society

Posted Thu, 09/03/2009 - 10:36 by Henry Giroux

My latest book came out last week.

It's available here:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0230613292/ref=cm_sw_r_fa_dp

 

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Do Teachers Need Education Degrees?

Posted Thu, 08/20/2009 - 09:48 by Henry Giroux

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Obama's Betrayal of Public Education? Arne Duncan and the Corporate Model of Schooling

Posted Thu, 07/02/2009 - 11:23 by Henry Giroux

Send the book to Obama, though I am not hopeful. Duncan is just a market fundamentalist who simply does not have a clue. See the piece below for a fuller analysis of his politics and background.

Obama's Betrayal of Public Education? Arne Duncan and the Corporate Model of Schooling

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The Schoolhouse Flunks

Posted Tue, 06/30/2009 - 10:45 by Henry Giroux

Another indication that Arnie Duncan is nothing more than Bush lite while extending Bush's education policies for a third term. Please someone send him a copy of Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of Freedom.

Education Dept. Dumps Symbolic Schoolhouse of No Child Left Behind - washingtonpost.com

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