In this article, William Ayers constructs his Phil Smith Lecture as a call to action. Grounded in democratic principles of equality and social justice, the author invokes a liberal conception of human worth and the universal right to educational opportunity. The author critiques the passivity of the American polity in the face of Barack Obama's…

This report critiques a study that condemned the privatization of school transportation in Ohio. The original study, authored by Mark Cassell, concluded that student transportation offered by a private company is more expensive than similar transportation that is provided in-house. The present report claims that the Cassell study ignored some…