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Political Push Continues on Student Loan Interest Rates
From a Stop the Machine protest in Washington, DC, October 6, 2011. (Photo: thisisbossi) Washington - Hoping for a federal student loan to help pay for college? Beware, because …
The Present and Future of the University: An Interview With David Theo Goldberg
In a wide-ranging conversation at McMaster University on March 15, 2012, Grace Pollock, the director of the Public Intellectuals Project, interviewed the internationally renowned race theorist David Theo Goldberg …
The Bully Politics of Education Reform
America is a bully nation. America is the embodiment of might-makes-right. When another country (USSR) invades Afghanistan, America is filled with righteous indignation, but when America invades Afghanistan, well, …
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Bipartisan Political Elite Implicated in For-Profit Education Fraud Â
Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) speaks to reporters at the Capitol in Washington on November 29, 2011. (Photo: Philip Scott Andrews / The New York Times)Like subprime mortgages, for-profit colleges …
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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 …
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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 …
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Bad Decisions
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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, …
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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 …