More pupil power and less hierarchy in schools could better train children for life, an exhibition in south London reveals.

Jesse Hagopian, with hand raised, and other Seattle teachers protested standardized exams Wednesday. Teachers at three Seattle schools are refusing to give students district-mandated standardized exams, one of the most dramatic moves in an escalating fight nationwide over using test scores to evaluate teachers and schools.

Anarchist experiments in education in the Toronto area reflect a history of brief spaces carved out from commercialism, of flowerings of liberation followed by the seeds of the next project to emerge.

Twelve students barricaded themselves inside an eighth-floor room at the top of the Cooper Union Foundation Building at noon on Monday to urge the school not to begin charging tuition to undergraduates. The school has not made a decision on charging tuition for undergraduates. But in April, it decided to begin charging tuition to graduate students for the first time in its 110-year history. The school’s president, Jamshed Bharucha, said then that he was searching for ways to keep undergraduate education free for classes after the one entering in 2013.

In September 2012, shortly after the end of the largest unlimited general student strike in the history of Quebec, several class-struggle anarchist organisations in Canada along with a few local chapters of the IWW put together a cross-country tour to bring the history and experiences of the Quebec student movement to students and activists outside the province. Stopping in over a dozen cities from Toronto, Ontario to Victoria, BC, the tour brought a participant in the 2012 student strike to audiences in colleges and universities as well as union halls and various cooperatives. The article that follows is based on this conference. Special thanks to Jonathan from Zabalaza for editing help! Promotional poster for the 2012 cross-Canada tour on the Quebec student movement

It has come to my attention that Edmond Public Schools is searching for a name for the new school at 2300 N. Pennsylvania Avenue.  The names we give to public schools both reflect and shape our values. A society that really wants to celebrate the life of an important figure – to keep his or her memory alive – does so publicly and permanently. Naming a scholarship, fellowship, street, or building forever honors an individual, group, or movement by associating their name with the institutions that compose a vital civic mission. The following are my recommendations for naming the new elementary school, based on historic events and progressive people in Oklahoma and Indian Territorial History.

Not everyone was on board with the UCF Board of Trustees’ decision to increase President John C. Hitt’s pay. Student groups showed up to the meeting Thursday to protest the raise. The Board approved a $26,500 base salary raise for Hitt, bringing his base salary from $463,500 to $490,000 — a 5.7 percent increase. This is the first salary increase he’s received since 2006, according to UCF.

In 2011, 180,000 students in Italy were eligible for financial aid; however, only 150,000 ended up receiving it. The other 30,000 students were denied aid despite their eligibility. In spite of the fact that the right to education is enshrined in the Italian constitution (art.34), the government never looked for possible solutions to the problem.

It has been four years since the financial collapse of 2008 set off the greatest world economic crisis since the 1930s. “Reform” measures put into place to stop the hemorrhaging have succeeded only in exacerbating socio-economic inequalities around the country, with the poor, once again, bearing the highest costs. Nowhere is this more apparent than the right-wing attacks on public workers, unions, and  pensions. It comes as no surprise to teachers that they find themselves on the front lines.

In the face of mounting tuition hikes, layoffs and budget cuts, thousands of students and educators have hit the streets in university towns across the Americas. The demonstrations have cut across race, gender, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds, bringing disparate groups together to make the education system more transparent and democratic.