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Charter Schools, Academy Schools, and Related-Party Transactions: Same Scams, Different Countries 

Preston C. Green, III, University of Connecticut & Chelsea E. Connery, University of Connecticut

1st February 2021

In the course of the last quarter century, governmental entities in both the United States and England have sought to encourage educational...

“Education resistance: Activist media in struggles for public education,” special issue of Postcolonial Directions in Education 

Nisha Thapliyal, School of Education at the University of Newcastle, Australia

20th January 2019

Postcolonial Directions in Education, (Volume 7 Issue 2, 2018) is a themed issue entitled “Education resistance: Activist media in...

Portuguese Translation of Review of World Bank Document: Great Teachers 

Lois weiner, professor of education, New Jersey University, USA

15th June 2016

This is a Portuguese translation of a critical review of the World Bank document: Great Teachers: How to raise student learning in Latin...

Comprendiendo los objetivos y supuestos del reporte del Banco Mundial, “Profesores Excelentes: Cómo elevar el aprendizaje de los estudiantes en Latinoamérica y el Caribe” 

lois weiner, professor of education, New Jersey University, USA & mary compton, independent researcher, UK

15th June 2016

Analizamos de qué manera los sindicatos de maestros en otros lugares del mundo están respondiendo de manera general al movimiento Global de...

Austerity as an opportunity for union revival: Quebec public school teachers 

Jean-Noel Grenier, Industrial Relations Dept, Laval University Quebec et al

22nd March 2016

This article proposes an account of how two teachers’ labour federations have been reacting to austerity measures in public education....

Scrutinising how the World Bank's project for educational reform in Latin America and the Caribbean substitutes ideology for evidence 

Lois Weiner, Director, Urban Education and Teacher Unionism Policy Project, New Jersey City University, US & Mary Compton, Independent Scholar, www.teachersolidarity.com, UK

4th January 2016

In July 2014, the World Bank released Great Teachers: How to raise student learning in Latin America and the Caribbean. In its six chapters...

Global Education 'Reform': Building Resistance and Solidarity 

Gawain Little, Executive Member, National Union of Teachers, UK

7th December 2015

This edited volume brings together education academics and activists from around the world, who describe the effects of corporate education...

Learning Lessons from Chicago 

Carol Caref, Chicago Teachers Union & Kristine Mayle, Chicago Teachers Union

8th July 2015

This article describes how the Chicago schools system has been bedeviled by the social conditions faced by the city’s inhabitants, and now...

Current developments in school education in Turkey: education 'reforms' and teacher trade union responses 

Halil Buyruk, Post-Doc Researcher, University of Ankara, Turkey

8th July 2015

Education ‘reforms’ have been accelerated in the last decade in Turkey. Teachers, as the main actors of the education system, have...

School and young people in Greece at times of crisis: the repercussions of memorandum policies 

Pavlos Charamis, President of Centre for Research and Documentation at OLME, Greece & Themis Kotsifakis, President of OLME, Greece

8th July 2015

Greece constitutes, in many respects, an indicative case of implementing neoliberal policies in Εurope in the main sectors of politics and...

Education in a World Racked by Crisis 

Susan Robertson , Director of the Centre for Education, Globalisation and Societies, University of Bristol, UK

8th July 2015

The author argues that there have been major challenges to, and changes in, the role that education now plays in societies around the world...

The unexpected crop: social insurgency and new alternatives for education in Mexico 

Hugo Aboites, Professor of Education, Autonomous Metropolitan University, Mexico City

19th February 2015

During 2013, México was inundated by massive protests organized by hundreds of thousands of the close to two million teachers that form the...

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