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As the Obama administration’s educational reform movement increasingly adopts the interests and values of a “free-market” culture, many students graduate public schooling…
Henry A. Giroux
Henry Giroux (born 1943) is an internationally renowned writer and cultural critic, Professor Henry Giroux has authored, or co-authored over 65 books, written several hundred scholarly articles, delivered more than 250 public lectures, been a regular contributor to print, television, and radio news media outlets, and is one of the most cited Canadian academics working in any area of Humanities research. In 2002, he was named as one of the top fifty educational thinkers of the modern period in Fifty Modern Thinkers on Education: From Piaget to the Present as part of Routledge’s Key Guides Publication Series.
As the recent health care debate has made clear, the decades-long conservative campaign against the alleged abuses of “big government” is far…
It is nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind. – James Baldwin …
The absolute … spells doom to everyone when it is introduced into the political realm. – Hannah Arendt [1] Democracy in the…
“Education is the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough to assume responsibility for it and by the…
In 1977 I took my first job in higher education at Boston University. One reason I went there was because Howard Zinn…
In a Nutshell In many ways, Youth in a Suspect Society is motivated by a sense of outrage and a sense…
This is a difficult time in American history. The American people have every right to demand to live in peace, enjoy the…
This article is drawn from Henry A. Giroux’s book, "Youth in a Suspect Society," which has just been published by Palgrave/McMillan. This…
Paul Krugman, the Nobel Prize-winning economist, echoing the feelings of many progressives, recently wrote in The New York Times about how dismayed…