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Moyers Moment (2012): Heather McGhee on Student Debt
In this 2012 Moyers Moment from Moyers & Company, Heather McGhee, director of the Washington office of the research and advocacy organization Demos, talks about the crushing burden of student debt. She …
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Wall Street-Inflated Student Debt Bubble Hits $1 Trillion; Debtors Rally for Relief
Occupy San Francisco protest, November 16, 2011. (Photo: ericwagner) The collective weight of American student debt is a drag not just on those paying the debt, but on our …
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Political Push Continues on Student Loan Interest Rates
From a Stop the Machine protest in Washington, DC, October 6, 2011. (Photo: thisisbossi) Washington - Hoping for a federal student loan to help pay for college? Beware, because …
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Student Loan Interest Rates Loom as Political Battle
President Obama begins an all-out push on Friday to get Congress to extend the low interest rate on federal student loans, White House officials said, an effort that is …
The Bully Politics of Education Reform
America is a bully nation. America is the embodiment of might-makes-right. When another country (USSR) invades Afghanistan, America is filled with righteous indignation, but when America invades Afghanistan, well, …
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Bipartisan Political Elite Implicated in For-Profit Education Fraud
Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) speaks to reporters at the Capitol in Washington on November 29, 2011. (Photo: Philip Scott Andrews / The New York Times)Like subprime mortgages, for-profit colleges …
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Higher Education’s Role in Occupy and Related Social Justice Movements
Last month, I attended an event at my alma mater in Vermont which was billed as “Occupy Goddard.” Hosted by the college's president, Barbara Vacarr, who wrote an op-ed …
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Teen Pregnancies Highest in States With Abstinence-Only Policies
The number of teen births in the U.S. dropped again in 2010, according to a government report, with nearly every state seeing a decrease. Nationally, the rate fell 9 …
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Chancellor Asks California Community College to Hold Off on 2-Tier Tuition Plan
Los Angeles - The chancellor of the California community college system has requested that Santa Monica College hold off on its plan to begin offering popular courses for a …
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