Truthout
Education
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Whose Century Is It? Life on an Increasingly Improbable Planet
Perhaps this is no longer really the “American century” at all.
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Federal Committee Votes to Terminate Troubled College Accreditor
The Education Department took the unprecedented step of calling on the government to revoke powers of for-profit college accreditor.
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The Case for a Child-Centered Energy and Climate Policy
Fossil fuel combustion and associated air pollution and carbon dioxide is the root cause of much of children's ill health children.
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The Senate’s Popular Sentencing Reform Bill Would Sort Prisoners by “Risk Score“
Federal prisoners would be scored according to their risk of recidivating. Those who got high scores would be ineligible for sentence reduction.
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Will Trump and Charter Schools Be Another Scam? Just Look at Pal Carl Icahn’s School “Charity“
Self-serving deals, like Icahn's, are not an outlier in the scandal-plagued charter school industry.
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What’s Really Happening to the Humanities Under Neoliberalism?
An emphasis on “employable” academic majors is resulting in a self-fulfilling prophecy in which learning is devalued.
The Emancipation of the Minority Academic
There was a Black woman on my computer screen, not slinking into the back of a college classroom, but with her shoulders squared for millions of viewers.
Goldman Sachs Just Ate Denmark for Breakfast
Goldman Sachs stands to make a huge profit from the purchase of 19% of Denmark's national energy company, Dong Energy.
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Elizabeth Warren Slams For-Profit College Accreditor for “Appalling Record of Failure“
Warren released a detailed report on for-profit accreditor, ACICS, urging federal government to take action.
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Inside the Growing Movement Against Campus Militarization
The Disarm PSU campaign is just the most recent of movements around the country to confront the increased use of lethal arms on college campuses.