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Education & Youth
A Doctor’s Degree at 102
Ingeborg Rapoport had been awarded a doctor's degree at the age of 102!
Charter Program Expansion Looms, Despite Probes Into Mismanagement and Closed Schools
Department of Education officials have assured stakeholders that the problems with millions disappearing down black holes is a thing of the past, but this is not the case.
Scrap the MAP test: My Kindergartener Joins the Opt Out Movement
The new Common Core standards, and the tests meant to measure student's progress, are dramatically developmentally inappropriate.
Bronx Theater Uses Avant-Garde Approach to Teach Everyday Activism
Whether the crisis is AIDS or cyber-bullying, Pregones Theater's empathy-based theater techniques help young people rehearse for action.
“Stop Blaming Teachers, Start Funding Schools”: More Than 30,000 Teachers Walk Out in Protest of Big Class Sizes in Washington State
Let the Washington State Legislature know that they must come up with the money for our schools.
Pakistan Cannot Handle Educated Jihadists
Pakistan needs to broaden its profile or risk a new wave of barely understood terror.
You’ve Been Scammed! Kept Politicians and Demobilized Americans in a System Without a Name
Tom Engelhardt addresses the graduates of 2014 from “the campus of his mind.”
Gay High School Student Delivers Valedictorian Speech He Was Barred From Giving
Evan Young's principal stopped him from giving his speech after learning he would announce he is gay.
Charter Industry Strong-Arms Public Officials; $3.3 Billion Spent
The charter schools program was not designed with accountability and transparency in mind. Quite the contrary.
The Student Loan Crisis and the Debtfare State
Debtfarism represents a set of institutional and ideological practices aimed at regulating and normalizing the growing dependence on expensive consumer credit to meet basic needs, such as education.