Education, equality, opportunity - John Ellerby John Ellerby's critique of the British educational system.
“Power of the grassroots": reflections on a step into alternative education This piece attempts to reflect on a preliminary step in bringing a radical, alternative education…
Chicago Tribune issues cynical rant to discredit striking teachers The Chicago Tribune Editorial Board has published a hate-filled rant chock-full of misinformation in…
May 1968 in Senegal This is the last part of our series of five articles on the class struggle in French West Africa, centred in particular on Senegal. The series…
Summerhill education versus standard education - A. S. Neill A. S. Neill, the founder of the libertarian independent school Summerhill, on the differences…
Timeline of UK schoolchildren's strikes A chronology of school pupil walkouts which I have been able to discover in the UK from the 19th century to today.
The UK school students' strike, 1985 - Steven Johns A short history of a successful national walkout of up to a quarter of a million school students against the Conservative government's workfare…
The Stepney schoolchildren's strike, 1971 A short account of a strike of 800 pupils in Stepney, east London on May 27, 1971, which successfully won reinstatement of a teacher who was…
The Burston Strike School, 1914-1939 A short history of the longest schoolchildren's strike in UK history, when nearly all pupils at Burston school in Norfolk, England walked out in…
The schoolchildren's strikes, 1889 - Steven Johns A brief history of walkouts of schoolchildren across the UK in October 1889 against corporal punishment and excessive workloads.
Finland: Schools to close, rail network to shut down in austerity protest Finnish teachers are set to join the biggest labour movement demonstration in decades on Friday,…
Race, education, intelligence: a teacher's guide to the issues A late 1970s pamphlet from the National Union of Teachers on the bankruptcy of IQ studies and the…
