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Articles in Class & Inequality tagged with Education

The crisis here spells disaster for the future of public education.

Johanna Winant, Jessica Wilkerson, Rose Casey

Institutional reform is no match for pervasive structural inequality.

Christopher Newfield

Education is not inherently liberatory: it has always been an arena for broader struggles over who has access to knowledge and to what ends learning is put.

Victoria Baena
To support the work of the future, we must promote workers’ skills as crucial to technological progress.
Nichola Lowe

Why the left’s turn from higher education has coincided with a newfound conservative appreciation for it.

Marshall Steinbaum

Two new books take aim at the moral failures of meritocracy. But we can advocate for a more just society without giving up on merit.

Agnes Callard

How faculty retirement policies shape racial and gender diversity on campus.

Anne McDonough, Oluchi Mbonu, Daniel E. Ho

Astra Taylor talks with Rutgers faculty union president Todd Wolfson about organizing academic communities in the age of COVID-19.

Todd Wolfson, Astra Taylor
Media stories praising online language learning as an inexpensive way to take a “vacation” during COVID-19 have expressed astonishingly little curiosity about the conditions under which gig-economy language teachers labor.
Roberto Rey Agudo, Alberto Bruzos Moro, Yuliya Komska
Boston Review talks with Nobel Prize-winning economist Angus Deaton about COVID-19, the relationship between culture, financial hardship, and health, and why capitalism’s flaws are proving fatal for America’s working class. 
Angus Deaton, Joshua Cohen

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