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Did Kaplan Lobby to Deregulate For-Profit Colleges While One of Its Schools Defrauded Students?
New information appears to tie Washington Post-owned Kaplan University to this legislation deregulating for-profit colleges at the same time Kaplan was misleading students about the accreditation status of a …
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Romney’s Disastrous Education Agenda: Reward His Donors, Make Sure Money Dominates Politics
Mitt Romney has just released his plan for educating Americau2019s young people, and itu2019s wholly consistent with his overall philosophy: Allow money to dominate politics, and everything will work …
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As Anti-Protest Law Attempts to Stifle Dissent, 400 Students in Quebec Arrested in Mass March
In the most recent escalation in the battle between a Quebecoise government pushing tuition hikes and striking Canadian students, at least three cities saw mass arrests at demonstrations against …
Obama, Education and the End of the American Dream
Obama is a skillful politician and a great orator. He has consistently made reference to the American Dream in his campaigning for the presidency and after, often focusing on …
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A Radical Idea to Transform What Kids Learn in School
Exxon-Mobil is airing education-reform television ads. In the one I’ve seen most often, implicit and explicit messages are simple and clear: (a) We live in a dangerous, technologically complex …
Dozens of Philadelphia Public Schools on Chopping Block
Students, parents, teachers, rally against a proposed radical restructuring of the public school system.
Quebec Students Demand Education as a Right, Continue Strike
Thousands of students across Quebec continue their strike. More than 170,000 students are on strike. A deal that was tentatively agreed to by some of the student leadership over …
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Studies Suggest Economic Inequity Is Built Into, and Worsened by, School Systems
In light of the new research, several components of no excuses education reform are likely to increase the current problems with social and educational equity, instead of addressing them.
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A Generation Hobbled by the Soaring Cost of College
Click here to support news free of corporate influence by donating to Truthout. Ada, Ohio - Kelsey Griffith graduates on Sunday from Ohio Northern University. To start paying off her …
CUNY Students Protest Tuition Increases Today for Tomorrow’s Students
They also demanded that all charges be dropped against students with charges pending from peaceable protests.