inquiry Featured The Class Divide within Education This is the introduction to an upcoming series, The Industrialization of Education. It lays out our general analytical framework. Two ideals are struggling for supremacy in American life today: one is the industrial ideal dominating through the supremacy of commercialism, which subordinates the worker to the product and the machine;
education history Proletarians or Professionals? A History from Below of Teacher Unionism in the United States This piece began as a research paper I created for a class that I took while working on my teacher certification in 2020. At first, it was meant to be a cut and dry, chronological history of the movement. I was working in-person for minimum wage at the height of
education history Featured The Industrialization of Education: Phase Three, 1992-Today "This is a union busting tactic. All of this is. Vouchers, charter schools standardized testing, and teacher evaluation schemes were all created with two purposes in mind: destroy the teachers' unions and privatize education."
