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Education
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Ten Ways School Reformers Get It Wrong
When it comes to education reform, we're not trying to reinvent the wheel anymore; instead we're building square ones.
Congress Discovers: For-Profit Colleges Put Profits First
In December of last year, ranking House Member Elijah Cummings initiated an investigation of executive pay at for-profit educational institutions.
Charles Glass: With Annan’s Exit and Influx of Foreign Arms, Syria’s Violence “Seems the Only Way Out”
A hardening diplomatic impasse brings even more urgency to the violent crisis.
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Jim Hightower: Turning College Students Into Commodities
Turning Wall Street loose on college students will turn them into chattel indentured to investors.
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Taking Henry Giroux’s Borderless Pedagogy to Our Institutions of Higher Learning
We must move away from accepting the structural and ideological constraints that maintain current systems of domination.
A Democratic Country Should Put Public Education Before Corporate Profits
Schools are closing. Teachers are being laid off. State and local governments are cutting like crazy and Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin has released a report warning about the looming …
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Education’s Biggest Design Flaw
I live on the west bank of the Indian River Lagoon on Floridau2019s East Coast. Across the Lagoon, in the distance, is Kennedy Space Center. For years, I walked …
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Obama’s and Romney’s Opposing Views on What the American Public Provides
America is divided about its future. Should it keep and expand the system that brought past opportunity, prosperity and freedom? Or should it dismantle that system?
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The Ruling Elite and the Perversion of Scholarship
There is probably no more inhospitable place to be an intellectual, a person of color or a member of the LGBT community than at the Big Ten Conference colleges.
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City College Closure Could End San Francisco’s Adult Education Program
When Eunice Kim came to City College of San Francisco in 2007, she was looking for a way up and out of the spiraling travel industry that sheu2019d been …