Via P6, the economic crisis is affecting institutions of higher education, in particular the Historically Black Colleges and Universities that produce more than a quarter of the country’s black college graduates. One of the more notable changes is Spelman, Morehouse and Clark merging their education departments: Spelman recently announced it is phasing out its department […]
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STATES JOCKEY FOR EDUCATION STIMULUS FUNDS.
The stimulus package’s $54 billion for schools is the largest ever investment in the Department of Education. You better believe that states, many of them facing budget crises, are eager to get their hands on the dough. But there’s a catch. Before any state can access the dollars, they must promise to “maintain service.” That […]
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Reflections on Obama-Era Patriotism
Loving your country does not mean waving a flag and singing the anthem. True patriotism comes in the form of genuine, once-and-for-all integration.
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TALKIN’ ‘BOUT MY GENERATION: STEAL AWAY.
Putting on the old speaking-on-behalf-of-my-generation hat, as a “millennial” I have to take issue with Senator John McCain’s depiction of the economic stimulus package that will finally pass at the end of this week, leaving all of Washington totally exhausted. McCain says the plan is “generational theft. … We are robbing future generations of Americans […]
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THE FINAL NUMBERS ON EDUCATION IN THE STIMULUS.
Well, the stimulus seems to have been passed, in part, on the backs of children. TPM got their hands on a draft of the conference agreement, and here are some of the losses in education: The $500,000,000 new work study program for college students has been cut to $200,000,000. Funds for school technology cut from […]
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WHAT DOES THE STIMULUS MEAN FOR EDUCATION REFORM?
As I reported last week, the House version of the stimulus bill contained a total of $140 billion to support early childhood centers, school districts, colleges, and to expand the Pell grant program. The bill passed by the Senate yesterday decreased education funding to $80 billion, mostly by cutting direct education aid to states and […]
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WE’RE ALL NEBRASKANS NOW.
Over the weekend, I quoted Ben Nelson saying “I think [the stimulus] will be below 800 [billion]. For me it’s not symbolism, it’s an economic matter. At some point it’s just too big.” $800 billion, I joked, was calculated using the famed Nelson output theorem, which is not at all reliant on symbolism or a […]
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DEDICATION.
I don’t really think it’s right for Jelani Cobb to be giving anyone else lawn jockey awards when Jesse Lee Peterson is still around. Here he is explaining that “I think we all agree that Barack Obama was elected “mostly by black racists and white guilty people.” Cue Sean Hannity, in faux disbelief, “do you […]
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A QUESTION OF GROWTH.
David Leonhardt ask as a good question in yesterday’s Times magazine: After we fix the economy, how will it grow? The industries that have driven growth in recent years have either been fake (the housing bubble, the internet bubble) or have reached their peak in terms of added productivity (the non-fake benefits of internet technology). […]
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EDUCATION AND THE STIMULUS BILL.
On a conference call with reporters this morning, Congressman George Miller, chair of the House Committee on Education and Labor, outlined how pre-school, K-12, and higher education will benefit from the economic recovery act the House is set to vote on today. Here are the highlights: $14 billion for school modernization and repair, including investments […]
