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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 …
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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 …
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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.
Why Teaching People to Think for Themselves Is Repugnant to Religious Zealots and Rick Santorum
It is impossible to separate what we do in the classroom from the economic and political conditions that shape our work.
Book Burning in Arizona
There is more at work in the attack on ethnic studies than the rise of Tea Party politics and specific acts of censorship.
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Movement to End High-Stakes Testing Steps Up in Seattle
Teachers in Seattle high schools are refusing to administer a mandatory test, in defiance of public school and union policy.
Universities Gone Wild: Big Money, Big Sports and Scandalous Abuse at Penn State
The desecration of public trust is all the more vile when the persons and institution in question have been assigned the stewardship of generations of youth.