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Education

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School Data Profiteering
A new nonprofit called inBloom will collect information from student records and provide third-party for-profit companies access to students' data.

Education in Iceland
Iceland is considering a rash of new education initiatives that would fundamentally alter power dynamics in the classroom.

Elizabeth Warren’s QE for Students: Populist Demagoguery or Economic Breakthrough?
Could Warren's bill represent the sort of game-changing thinking sorely needed to turn the economy around?

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Fighting for Our Classrooms, and for the Human Beings Inside Them
It seems as if the same battle is being fought in every aspect of American society ... Sadly, the classrooms of this country haven't been spared.

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A Big, Unexplored Idea in School Reform
Evidence of the traditional general education curriculum's inadequacy is overwhelming.

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Is “Business Productivity” Coming to the University of Texas?
Educational institutions are no longer safe from the reaches of profiteers.

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The Metropolitan Education Problem: Why High School Students Are Walking Out
Though we are still living in the legacy of these historical developments, we no longer discuss the structural problems of American cities like Philadelphia.

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Denying a Head Start in Washington State
To get a sense of just how foolish and shortsighted the $85 billion across-the-board sequester cuts are you donu2019t have to look any further than Head Start.

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Student Loans on the Cheap
Given the way Washington works, you take what you get, which means Senator Warren's plan deserves support.

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Henry A. Giroux | In the Dead Zone of Capitalism: Lessons on the Violence of Inequality from Chicago
Rahm Emanuelu2019s actions in Chicago also mimic neoliberal policies that are playing out in other cities across the US.