Education
Editors' Picks
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Betrayers of the Dream
Jul 12, 2015How sleazy for-profit colleges disproportionately targeted black students.
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It's All About the Money
May 21, 2015How America became preoccupied with higher education’s bottom line.
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Race or Class? The Future of Affirmative Action on the College Campus
Jun 22, 2014Focusing college-student recruitment on poor neighborhoods can overlook middle-class African Americans entitled to affirmative action.
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Sex, Lies and Justice
Jan 12, 2015Can we reconcile the belated attention to rape on campus with due process?
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When Adjuncts Go Union
Jun 30, 2015On campuses across America, contingent faculty are fighting back against low wages and precarious employment.
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Evicted? San Francisco Says Not So Fast
Apr 15, 2016Amid an overheated housing market that has sent San Francisco evictions soaring, the city has stepped in to protect schoolchildren and teachers from landing on the street.
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The Argument for Tuition-Free College
Apr 14, 2016Soaring tuitions and student loan debt are placing higher education beyond the reach of many American students. It’s time to make college free and accessible to all.
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School Closures: A Blunt Instrument
April 11, 2016Shuttering “failed schools” can have painful consequences for children and neighborhoods.
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The Great Diversion
Apr 07, 2016Charter schools may or may not improve student outcomes—but they divert funds from other public schools.
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Chicago Teachers Join with Fight for 15 and Black Lives Matter in One-Day Strike
Apr 01, 2016Labor leaders and activists unite in opposition to funding cuts, and see a broader fight against anti-union measures pushed by the state’s Republican governor.
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North Carolina Educators Fight Deportations of Central American Students
Mar 23, 2016Teachers across the state are uniting in their call to end the raids, which have disrupted the education of immigrant students.
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Can Charlotte-Mecklenburg Desegregate Its Schools ... Again?
Mar 18, 2016Charlotte led the way in school integration during the 1970s and 1980s, but now faces deep divisions over plans to diversify its increasingly segregated schools.
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Campaign Challenge: Fix the African American Student Loan Crisis
Mar 15, 2016Both Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton have proposed plans to ease the crippling debt burdening African American students, but their plans diverge in predictable ways.
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College, the Skills Gap, and the Student Loan Crisis
Feb 25, 2016A conversation with economist Marshall Steinbaum on how we should rethink inequality and higher education.
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Academic Drivel Report
Feb 22, 2016Confessing my sins and exposing my academic hoax.
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Illinois Universities Face Closures, Layoffs as State Budget Impasse Continues
Feb 12, 2016As lawmakers in Springfield fail to pass a 2016 budget, college students are "being held hostage."
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School Desegregation Lawsuit Threatens Charters
Jan 26, 2016A provocative civil-rights case in Minnesota could influence school integration efforts nationally.
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Acting Education Secretary Champions Economic, Racial Integration
Jan 25, 2016Acting Education Secretary John B. King has signaled that racial and socioeconomic integration will now take center stage in federal education policy.
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Friedrichs: Son of Bush v. Gore
Jan 12, 2016For Supreme Court conservatives, the Friedrichs case, which they heard yesterday, presents them with a twofer: They can both smash unions and defeat Democrats.
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Charged with Firing Teachers for Organizing, a Chicago Charter Network Settles
Jan 12, 2016The deal, which Urban Prep agreed to this week, represents the largest unfair labor practice settlement for charter teachers to date.
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