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Are Student Loans Becoming a Macroeconomic Issue?
New report brings into question the long term affects of student loans on the future of the economy.
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Heretical Advice from a Happily and Heavily Indebted Ph.D.:Why Poor Students Shouldn’t Fear Student Loans
Recently a student told me how he had been discouraged from freely taking out federal student loans by his professor. When the student said he wasn't particularly concerned about …
Three Members of the Seneca Lake 12 Jailed for a Peaceful Blockade of Inergy’s Salt Cavern Gas Storage Facility and Compressor Station.
Businesswoman Melissa Chipman (case number 13030034.01), Farm Owner Michael Dineen (case number 13030032.01), and Author, Biologist, and Heinz Award Recipient Sandra Steingraber, Ph.D (case number 13030033.01), refused to pay …
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The Right – and Wrong – Role for Teachers
Put lawyers, carpenters, baseball players, and surgeons in wrong roles, test them, and a likely conclusion will be that they're not particularly effective. So it is with teachers.
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Punishing Students for Who They Are, Not What They Do
In many schools, suspension rates are a reflection of the racial bias that keeps students of color from succeeding.
Public Education Fights for Its Life
Max Eternity: Austerity measures are eroding America's public school system.
Brooklyn College Students for Justice in Palestine Vindicated After 2-Month CUNY Investigation into BDS Event
After a two-month investigation, the City University of New York (CUNY) General Counsel's office issued a report late Friday vindicating student organizers of a February 7th event at Brooklyn …
Are School Closings Racist?
At the most basic level, thereu2019s the fact that decisions about African American communities are being made without their consent.
“Wisconsin Idea” Gone Bad at Kazakhstan’s Nazarbayev University
The story of UW Madison's ongoing Kazakhstan involvement stands as a case study of the contradictions inherent today's ‘global universities.’
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Newark Students Defy Threats to Protest Attacks on Public Education
On Tuesday, up to 2,000 students from at least a dozen public high schools in Newark, New Jersey, walked out of class to protest years of budget cuts, school …