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Published: 14 September, 2018

“Our Experience with Proyecto Roma: Giving Voice to the Silence”, by Manuel Crespo Nievas, José Miguel Megías Leyva and Begoña López Cuesta

Commitment to ensuring the right to education for refugee children, forcibly displaced persons, stateless persons, those seeking international protection and migrants necessitates an inclusive school system. This concerns not only teaching and didactic matters, to research and innovation in education, but also the realm of moral...

Published: 06 September, 2018

#EI25: "And if those who are absent were …. right, at times?", by Daniel B. Lafrenière

There is an old French adage that says “les absents ont toujours tort,” which means that those who are absent are always in the wrong (or always get the blame). But what if they were right after all under certain circumstances? This seems to be the case in the field of education. Among a plethora of ongoing reforms and cres...

Published: 28 August, 2018

The Shameful Origin of School Vouchers in the US, by Jim Baker

Vouchers are controversial elements of modern “reforms” to public education. They are supposed to give opportunities to poor people and make education fairer. They were fashionable first in the US and then spread to other nations. What is less known is that vouchers under other guises, were already an instrument to undermine...

Published: 23 August, 2018

#EI25: “When Ordinary People Demand Justice”, by Lily Eskelsen García

Sometimes what touches us at an international meeting isn’t what’s on the agenda. It’s what was outside on the street. Sometimes it’s the crushing courage of tiny, fragile grandmothers who would not be stopped and who serve as an example to all social justice activists of what we are called on to do; how we are called ...

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