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Ten Business Lessons for Higher Education
Neoliberal reformers suggest that universities need to act more like businesses, yet their suggestions undermine the purpose of higher education. Instead, what if universities learned the lessons of responsible …
30 Years Adrift on an Ocean of Reforms: How We Lost Our Bearings: Part 3
When it comes to educational attainment socioeconomic and racial inequality has always existed in America.
Virtual Learning and Social Currency
I believe we have the capacity to interact with each other and create learning communities that are personalized, engaging, relevant and rigorous academically.
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Occupy Offshoot Cancels $4 Million in Predatory Student Loans – and Starts a Debtors Union
“Rolling Jubilee is a fantastic way to punch through the illusion that you actually owe what the 1 percent thinks you owe,” said Thomas Gokey, a Rolling Jubilee co-founder …
Education With a Debt Sentence: For-Profit Colleges as American Dream Crushers and Factories of Debt
Over the last three decades, the price of a year of college has increased by more than 1,200 percent.
30 Years Adrift on an Ocean of Reforms: Debate Centered on Crisis Rather Than Solutions
The National Commission on Excellence in Education clearly conveyed the ideal of a Learning Society by its
First Fall Semester Debtors’ Assembly at SIUC: A Critique of the Student Debt Regime
Just a few decades ago, accumulating debt in and as a result of attending college was virtually unheard of.
Thirty Years Adrift on an Ocean of Reforms: We Set Our Course on Standards and Tests
This nation.s children deserve a better standard of practice than teaching to the test.
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Stanford’s Coal Divestment: Meet Two Students – and One President – Who Made It Happen
The movement to persuade schools to divest from fossil fuels has taken off around the country. Meet a few people who helped make it happen at Stanford.
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Children’s Rights Groups Urge Defense Program to Stop Giving School Cops Military Hardware
Among the military hardware requested by school police were anti-mine vehicles, M-16s, ammo, grenade launchers.