A new study finds that drops in white student achievement often lead to the passage of “teacher quality” bills. Not so much when it comes to dips in black student achievement.
Kay Steiger
Kay Steiger is managing editor at Raw Story and a former Prospect editorial assistant.
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We Blinded Her from Science
Why are there so few women in STEM fields? Hint: The problem is not just about “lifestyle choices.”
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Class Struggle
As levels of student debt continue to rise, regulators have an opportunity to reform higher education.
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The Student Parent Trap
As more parents attend college, the need for schools to accommodate them grows.
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Anti-Choice Congressmen Seek to Redefine Rape
The illustrious Nick Baumann dives deeper into the “No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion” bill introduced last week and finds that the proposed bill actually seeks to narrow the definition of rape. With this legislation, which was introduced last week by Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.), Republicans propose that the rape exemption be limited to “forcible rape.” […]
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What Stock Prices Tell Us About Higher-Education Policy.
Yesterday, reports emerged that stock prices on many for-profit education companies (you probably recognize their names from online or television advertising) have ticked upward despite a decline in enrollment. DeVry University shares shot up 9.8 percent in afternoon trading yesterday despite the fact that their enrollment fell 4.7 percent this fall. Why the sudden spike? […]
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Preterm Births as an Indicator of Inequality.
Via Sociological Images, the Centers for Disease Control has released data about preterm births, broken down by race. The CDC data show that non-Hispanic black women are much more likely to give birth preterm when compared with other demographic groups — particularly white non-Hispanic women. They also go on to note some long-term trends: Although […]
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Bristol Palin Brought to Wash U’s “Sex Week” in Name of Balance.
Student Life, the campus newspaper for Washington University, reports that Bristol Palin will be speaking on campus during the school’s annual Sex Week. The school got approval to spend $20,000 on speaking fees for the week, but won’t disclose exactly how much of that will go toward bringing Palin to campus. This isn’t Palin’s first […]
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“Winning the Future” Starts With the Pell Grant.
One of the key pieces in President Barack Obama‘s “win the future” State of the Union speech last night was investment in education. Obama created much buzz in the higher-education community during a SOTU-like speech in 2009, when he challenged everyone in America to pursue at least one year of higher education or post-secondary training. […]
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Women Lose Jobs as We Recover From the “He-cession.”
Today, Heather Boushey, my colleague at the Center for American Progress, has a piece in Slate talking about how despite the fact that there has been steady job growth in the economic recovery from the “he-cession,” women are the big losers. While men have experienced steady gains in employment (private-sector manufacturing, for instance, has seen […]