Education
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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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Graduating to an Unequal Economy
Jun 04, 2015The job market is improving, but prospects remain sharply divided by race.
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The Uphill Battle of Unionizing a Philly Charter School
Jun 04, 2015How a Philadelphia charter operator can spend tens of thousands of public dollars to fight a union.
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How Big Money Lost in Philly’s Mayoral Race
May 20, 2015Support from unions and public-education advocates won Jim Kenney the primary election, despite $7 million in outside spending for his opponent.
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The High Road Wins
May 08, 2015How and why Minnesota is outpacing Wisconsin
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Can 'Grit' Save American Education?
Apr 21, 2015Grit, privilege, and American education's obsession with novelty.
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Faculty Join Fast Food in the Fight for $15
Apr 16, 2015On campuses across the country, adjunct professors are starting to organize against rock-bottom pay and tenuous job security.
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When the Student Movement Was a CIA Front
Apr 14, 2015The CIA's manipulation of the National Student Association foreshadowed other forms of Cold War blowback that compromised democracy at home.
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Can 'Grit' Save American Education?
Apr 10, 2015Grit, privilege, and American education's obsession with novelty.
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Why the Feds Can't Seem to Rein in For-Profit Colleges -- Or Stop Giving Them Money
Apr 02, 2015For-profit colleges have mastered predatory lending while still relying heavily on federal dollars.
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March Madness: How Title IX Just Totally Rocked Your Sunday
Mar 30, 2015During Women's History Month, it's important to remember how recently female athletes were excluded from college basketball.
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5 Ways to Bring Fairness Into College Basketball
Mar 24, 2015March Madness now brings in more cash than the Super Bowl, but its star players won't see a dime.
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America's Willful Ignorance of Our History of Lynching Feeds Racial Hatred
Mar 18, 2015It's easy to focus on individual racist acts and condemn the actors. But that doesn't get us closer to solving the problem of racism.
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NYU Graduate Students Win Historic Victory
Mar 13, 2015After over a year of tense negotiations, a tentative agreement is a major win, and the result of a renewed push to mobilize the Manhattan campus.
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Photo Essay: Vigil for Slain Chapel Hill Muslim Students
Feb 13, 2015While the media lit up with arguments over whether or not Craig Hicks's execution-style killing of three young Arabs was a hate crime, the UNC community gathered to commemorate the lives of the slain.
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Gertner Responds to Brodsky on University Rules for Campus Sexual Assault Justice
Jan 22, 2015The author took issue in the Prospect with Harvard's new guidelines for disciplinary proceedings in campus rape cases. Alexandra Brodsky offered an opposing view on our website.
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