UNESCO/March 06, 2018/Source: https://en.unesco.org New figures on the number of children out of school worldwide reveal that despite decades of efforts to get every child into the classroom, progress has come to a standstill. According to data from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), about 263 million children, adolescents and youth worldwide – one in every […]
Youth
The United States’ War on Youth: From Schools to Debtors’ Prisons
By: Henry A. Giroux If one important measure of a democracy is how a society treats its children, especially poor youth of color, there can be little doubt that American society is failing. As the United States increasingly models its schools after prisons and subjects children to a criminal legal system marked by severe class […]