Amid 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
Soaring 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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Chicago Teachers Join with Fight for 15 and Black Lives Matter in One-Day Strike
Labor 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
Teachers across the state are uniting in their call to end the raids, which have disrupted the education of immigrant students.
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North Carolina Educators Fight Deportations of Central American Students
Teachers 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?
Charlotte 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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College, the Skills Gap, and the Student Loan Crisis
A conversation with economist Marshall Steinbaum on how we should rethink inequality and higher education.Â
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Academic Drivel Report
Confessing my sins and exposing my academic hoax.Â
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Illinois Universities Face Closures, Layoffs as State Budget Impasse Continues
As lawmakers in Springfield fail to pass a 2016 budget, college students are “being held hostage.”Â
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Detroit Sick-Out Critics Frustrated They Can’t Blame it on the Teachers Union
For the past several months, teachers in Detroit have been organizing to protest their unsafe and underfunded public schools. These working conditions, the teachers argue, negatively impact both their ability to teach and students’ ability to learn. And students are indeed struggling: Detroit public school students consistently earn the lowest reading and math test scores […]
