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State Cuts to Public Funding of Higher Education Responsible for Increases in Tuition Costs
Michael Leachman: Tuition costs are rising as states respond to the recession by cutting public funding to higher education, with cuts averaging 28 percent on a per pupil basis.
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Why Common Core Isn’t the Answer
This is why dozens of other scholars have been saying the same thing for at least the last several hundred years: What we're doing isn't working!
Rethinking Economics: From the UK, a Global Student Movement Takes Shape
An international movement began to demand a change in the way economics is taught.
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Minnesota Law Substitutes Military Test for Graduation Requirement
In Minnesota, radical changes to graduation testing requirements make it easier for high school students' personal information to be sent to military recruiters without parental consent.
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Transforming Our Dark Affinities
In “Dark Affinities,” Joseph Natoli opened up a major, unrecognized line of thinking that identifies an
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MOOCs and the Democratization of Online Education
As presently structured, MOOCs are unable to provide the transformative education democracy requires.
US Education System in Deepening Crisis: What Can be Done About It?
Public education, one of the storied pillars of our society, is under attack by people and institutions who like to think of themselves as reformers.
A Dream Deferred: “This Rigid Refusal to Look at Ourselves”
“Harlem” remains a powerful and necessary questionu2014and a disturbing harbinger, as Hughes answers his opening question with more questions.
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Rulers’ Ideas Rule
Contrarians of the world should unite to identify and challenge these ruling ideas.
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Long Division
Immigrants have long looked to public education as the pathway to prosperity, through schools that offer their kids a springboard to the American Dream. Yet many learn the hard …