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Higher Education
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Higher Education Is a Key to Decarceration: Let’s Pass the REAL Act
College education is a gateway to shrinking our prison population and empowering formerly incarcerated people and those behind bars.
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Who Keeps Billions of Taxpayer Dollars Flowing to For-Profit Colleges?
One accreditor in particular is not making sure students are in a position to succeed.
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The Corporatization of Higher Education Is Holding Back Fossil Fuel Divestment
The fossil fuel divestment movement across college campuses is a moral question.
Henry A. Giroux | The Curse of Totalitarianism and the Challenge of Critical Pedagogy
Critical pedagogy is much more than a set of teaching strategies. It may be our greatest defense against totalitarianism.
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New Data Reveals Stark Gaps in Graduation Rates Between Poor and Wealthy Students
The public can see the graduation rates for Pell Grant recipients at over 1,000 schools.
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Divestment Movement Spurs Existential Crisis in Higher Education
Who will read my research and what, if anything, will it do to improve the lives of the people about whom I write?
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Free Community College, Anyone?
An Oregon bill promises free community college tuition but targets only middle-class students, overlooking the other half of the costs.
Mark Crispin Miller: Neoliberalism and Its Impacts on Free Speech, Education and Democracy
Mark Crispin Miller discusses neoliberal doctrine and his new series, “Forbidden Bookshelf.”
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Higher Education Lobby Quietly Joins For-Profit Schools to Roll Back Tighter Rules
Traditional colleges and universities have become unlikely allies of the beleaguered for-profit industry.
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What Happens When the Student Loan Bubble Pops?
71 percent of people have some sort student loan debt and the average is nearly $33,000.