Truthout
Education
|
Higher Education’s Role in Occupy and Related Social Justice Movements
Last month, I attended an event at my alma mater in Vermont which was billed as “Occupy Goddard.” Hosted by the college's president, Barbara Vacarr, who wrote an op-ed …
|
Teen Pregnancies Highest in States With Abstinence-Only Policies
The number of teen births in the U.S. dropped again in 2010, according to a government report, with nearly every state seeing a decrease. Nationally, the rate fell 9 …
|
Bad Decisions
Copyright Universal Uclick.
|
California Students Pepper-Sprayed While Protesting Tuition Hikes Caused by Budget Cuts
Santa Monica College, a public community college in California, has been so strained by cuts to state education funding that it has had to turn away students, increase tuition, …
|
The US Has Made No Progress on College Graduation Rates in 30 Years (Chart)
Both the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities’ Jared Bernstein and University of Missouri-St. Louis political scientist Kenneth Thomas flagged some data from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and …
|
The Assault on Public Education
Timothy White, chancellor at University of California, Riverside, at his office in Riverside, California, July 5, 2011. Sharp tuition increases, coupled with cutbacks in services, threaten to erode a …
|
What Standardized Tests Should Assess
If you fly, thank Myron Tribus for helping make your flight safer. He played a major role in the development of the equipment that keeps airliner wings free of …
Washington Post Annual Report Reveals Widespread Accreditation and Legal Problems at Kaplan University
Kaplan University is the blood bank for The Washington Post and supplies the Washington Post Corporation with 58 percent of its revenue. On February 29, 2012, The Washington Post …
Dangerous Pedagogy in the Age of Casino Capitalism and Religious Fundamentalism
It is crucial to develop educational approaches that reject a collapse of the distinction between market liberties and civil liberties.
Education as “Politically Contested Spaces”
We must stop conflating partisan and political.