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Charles Glass: With Annan’s Exit and Influx of Foreign Arms, Syria’s Violence “Seems the Only Way Out”
A hardening diplomatic impasse brings even more urgency to the violent crisis.
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Jim Hightower: Turning College Students Into Commodities
Turning Wall Street loose on college students will turn them into chattel indentured to investors.
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Taking Henry Giroux’s Borderless Pedagogy to Our Institutions of Higher Learning
We must move away from accepting the structural and ideological constraints that maintain current systems of domination.
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Education’s Biggest Design Flaw
I live on the west bank of the Indian River Lagoon on Floridau2019s East Coast. Across the Lagoon, in the distance, is Kennedy Space Center. For years, I walked …
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The Ruling Elite and the Perversion of Scholarship
There is probably no more inhospitable place to be an intellectual, a person of color or a member of the LGBT community than at the Big Ten Conference colleges.
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City College Closure Could End San Francisco’s Adult Education Program
When Eunice Kim came to City College of San Francisco in 2007, she was looking for a way up and out of the spiraling travel industry that sheu2019d been …
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How Abuse, Corruption and Silence at Penn State Perpetuate a Poisonous Culture
A former Penn State student and instructor says a culture of abuse exists well beyond the football field and the school's problems are systemic.
Anaheim Residents Continue Protests After Cops Open Fire at Women, Kids
On Saturday Anaheim Police Department officers openly fired bean bags, pepper spray and released an attack dog into a crowd that included women and children protesting an officer involved …
In Victory for Corporatized Education, Federal Court Strikes Down Regulation of For-Profit Colleges
The assumption behind the rules and regulations promulgated by the Department of Education (DOE), headed by Arne Duncan, were that the
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How Big Business Has Triumphed in State Legislatures on Civil Liberties, Higher Education and Energy
How three ALEC-like groups normalized extreme state-level policies on energy, civil liberties and higher education.