Article Subjects and Geography: Media
Notes from the Editors, July-August 2011
July 1, 2011
This special issue of MR, “Education Under Fire: The U.S. Corporate Assault on Students, Teachers and Schools,” was edited with the help of education professors, Bill Ayers and Rick Ayers,… READ MORE
Education Under Fire: Introduction
July 1, 2011
William Ayers (billayers123 [at] gmail.com) is an activist and scholar, formerly Distinguished Professor of Education and Senior University Scholar at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and has written extensively… READ MORE
1. Education and Capitalism
July 1, 2011
� 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, parents, and communities can… READ MORE
Education and the Structural Crisis of Capital: The U.S. Case
July 1, 2011
John Bellamy Foster (jfoster [at] monthlyreview.org) is editor of Monthly Review, professor of sociology at the University of Oregon, and author (with Fred Magdoff) of The Great Financial Crisis (Monthly… READ MORE
Education: The Great Obsession
July 1, 2011
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… READ MORE
Another Education Is Happening
July 1, 2011
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 schools…. READ MORE
2. Lessons from the New Corporate Schooling
July 1, 2011
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,… READ MORE
Testing, Privatization, and the Future of Public Schooling
July 1, 2011
“An Assessor” is a researcher and activist who has made extensive studies of education and testing, as well as national and international struggles for social change. Standardized testing occupies a… READ MORE
Militarism and Education Normal
July 1, 2011
Erica R. Meiners (e-meiners [at] neiu.edu) teaches courses in gender and women’s studies at the College of Education at Northeastern Illinois University, and works toward prison abolition. She is the… READ MORE