How a Philadelphia charter operator can spend tens of thousands of public dollars to fight a union.
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Faculty Join Fast Food in the Fight for $15
On campuses across the country, adjunct professors are starting to organize against rock-bottom pay and tenuous job security.Â
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Can ‘Grit’ Save American Education?
Grit, privilege, and American education’s obsession with novelty.Â
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Why the Feds Can’t Seem to Rein in For-Profit Colleges — Or Stop Giving Them Money
For-profit colleges have mastered predatory lending while still relying heavily on federal dollars.Â
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America’s Willful Ignorance of Our History of Lynching Feeds Racial Hatred
It’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
After 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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At Colleges Across the Country, PhDs Join the Ranks of Low-Wage Workers
Posted by guest blogger Justin Miller In college towns across America, adjunct faculty are quickly becoming the new, Ph.D.-educated working poor. If nobody noticed that adjuncts now comprise the majority of faculty in higher education, that surely changed yesterday, on what organizers deemed National Adjunct Walkout Day. The idea was to shine light on the […]
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The Terrifying Political Power of the Upper Middle Class
Today’s Plum Line post concerns the plan to eliminate the tax benefit of 529 plans, which the Obama administration proposed and then withdrew in the face of opposition from both Republicans and Democrats: The Republicans who are crowing about the White House’s retreat ought to remind themselves that this is yet another illustration of a […]
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Today’s Chart
Since President Obama is now proposing to make community college free for anyone who wants to go, I thought it would be a good time to look at the rather extraordinary change in Americans’ level of education that has occurred over the last 75 years. I made this chart using census data; note that the […]
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Obama’s State of the Union Preview Serves Up Pretty Weak Brew
Free college and discounted down payments sound great, until you unpack the specifics.
