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Student Protests Are a Bigger Deal Than You Think
Students who are alarmed to know they're not allowed to learn about civil dissent and protest have quite rationally chosen to protest.
After Censorship of History Course, Colorado Students and Teachers Give a Lesson in Civil Disobedience
After a county school board in Colorado proposed to rewrite the district's high school US history curriculum to stop teaching about civil disobedience, students and teachers have responded with …
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Venture Capitalists Are Poised to “Disrupt” Everything About the Education Market
Venture capitalists and for-profit firms are salivating over the exploding $788.7 billion market in K-12 education.
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Poll Shows How Democrats Can Win With a Public Education Agenda
Democratic candidates need to make support for public education front-and-center of their campaigns.
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Stanford Promises Not to Use Google Money for Privacy Research
Stanford's Center for Internet and Society has long received funding from Google, but a filing shows the university recently pledged to only use the money for non-privacy research. Academics …
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Ten Business Lessons for Higher Education
Neoliberal reformers suggest that universities need to act more like businesses, yet their suggestions undermine the purpose of higher education. Instead, what if universities learned the lessons of responsible …
30 Years Adrift on an Ocean of Reforms: How We Lost Our Bearings: Part 3
When it comes to educational attainment socioeconomic and racial inequality has always existed in America.
Virtual Learning and Social Currency
I believe we have the capacity to interact with each other and create learning communities that are personalized, engaging, relevant and rigorous academically.
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Occupy Offshoot Cancels $4 Million in Predatory Student Loans – and Starts a Debtors Union
“Rolling Jubilee is a fantastic way to punch through the illusion that you actually owe what the 1 percent thinks you owe,” said Thomas Gokey, a Rolling Jubilee co-founder …
Education With a Debt Sentence: For-Profit Colleges as American Dream Crushers and Factories of Debt
Over the last three decades, the price of a year of college has increased by more than 1,200 percent.