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Pandemic Reveals Limits of Education System to Assist Students and Families
COVID-19 is forcing administrators to address the roles schools play in communities.
The Stimulus Fails Student Borrowers. Congress Must Cancel Their Debt.
While colleges can tap into a $14 billion emergency relief fund, millions of their alumni will get no relief at all.
Coronavirus Is Poised to Inflame Inequality in Schools
Schools are not ready to take education entirely online.
Higher Education Is Woefully Unprepared to Help Poor Students Amid Coronavirus
Low-income students will be hurt the most by the lack of institutional preparedness.
In Stunning Bipartisan Rebuke of DeVos, Senate Overturns Anti-Student Rule
The Senate overturned a new rule that would have prevented defrauded students from having their loans forgiven.
Schools Are Operating as Testbeds for Mass Surveillance
A school district in New York recently adopted facial recognition technology to monitor students.
Librarians Could Be Jailed or Fined Under Proposed Censorship Law
A proposed bill in Missouri penalizes librarians who make “age-inappropriate sexual material” available to children.
Bernie Sanders Was Right About the Cuban Literacy Campaign
One of the key strengths of the Cuban campaign was to reframe illiteracy as a collective issue.
Bloomberg’s Public Education Legacy Is a Case Study in Disastrous Privatization
Bloomberg’s education record is far from progressive.
Bernie Sanders Releases Plan for Guaranteed “Child Care and Pre-K for All”
The plan would be paid for by inverting the massive tax giveaway lavished on the wealthy by President Donald Trump.