Why fetishizing information doesn't equal better politics.
Older children deserve the same protection and support offered to primary school age children, and above all need to be in school. Continuing to ignore their needs would be a grave mistake.
One of Russia’s foremost research and education institutions is under threat of closure. The solidarity of its staff and students gives hope for the future.
"These young people, they really don’t want to feel like victims: they really want to act and to instigate change." An interview to mark Human Rights Day.
The 2006 popular revolt in Oaxaca was the most significant movement in Mexico's recent history. 10 years on, its heritage lies in multiple protest action and stronger social relations among the population. Español
Education understood as a pillar of political activity, on the basis of criticism and resistance, becomes a fundamental means for struggling to end poverty, marginalization, slavery and exploitation.
Both left and right populism are based on a low opinion of public intelligence (an assumption, incidentally, shared with neoliberalism). What is needed is an ‘intelligent populism’.
The goals of the project were to reach low-resourced community schools with a new way of integrating ICT use for a sector of society that usually doesn’t have access to educational innovation.
This initiative, selected as a finalist for the 2016 Democracy Innovation Award, took place in public schools in Bolivia and experiments with creative ways of reinventing student government.
Many of the most innovative projects we encountered at this year's World Forum for Democracy on education, inequality and democracy involve a transfer of power.
