Crushing College Dreams
On the very day that student loan debt reached the $1-trillion mark, Senate Republicans blocked a vote to extend the 3.4-percent interest rate on student loans for another year.
A Watered-Down Education
Project WET’s supposed mission is a slap in the face to any community that has had its water muscled away by Nestle.
A More Meaningful Mother’s Day Gift
How about giving moms a little help with the birds and the bees?
The Class of 2012’s Choice
Today’s graduates must change the world if they don’t want to wind up flipping burgers.
Graduating into Debt
Neither a borrower nor a burger flipper be.
Grand Old Pedagogy
We’re a diverse nation of many religions and each has the same rights as any other group, including the right to be left alone.
Better Public Schools Require a Stronger Safety Net
School segregation by class is the norm in the United States.
Author Event: Freedom’s Teacher
Freedom’s Teacher traces the life of Septima Poinsette Clark from her earliest years as a student, teacher, and community member in rural and urban South Carolina to her increasing radicalization as an activist following World War II, highlighting how Clark brought her life’s work to bear on the civil rights movement.
Education Cuts Aren’t Smart
Too many states are choosing to balance budgets on the backs of children.
Too Many American Children Live in Poverty
The latest numbers are a moral outrage and a wake-up call.
The UC Davis Pepper Spray Incident
Lt. John Pike hosed down a line of silent, passive, determined, and frightened students, as if they were nothing more than weeds he needed to kill.
Shocked and Disappointed
Walmart’s sales are down because people are skimping on things like milk and food while Saks Fifth Avenue is selling lots of $1,000 handbags and $2,000 suits.
Chump U
For-profit colleges are too fixated on the corporate bottom line.
Free the College Football Market
College football pretends it’s about boola-boola, but it’s really all about ka-ching ka-ching.
Plutocracy with a Pleasant Philanthropic Face
Not all plutocrats scheme in the shadows like the rabidly right-wing Koch brothers. We need to learn how to recognize plutocracy’s more subtle putches. The best primer? The battle over education’s future.