The Bipartisan Safer Communities Act will not stop gun violence in schools or anywhere else.
Education in America
Posted inPodcasts
American School Financing Is a Disaster
Professor David I. Backer lays out the problems with how public schools are constructed and maintained.
Posted inEducation in America
Education Department Won’t Hold For-Profit College Executives Personally Accountable
A top official at the department claims he needs executives’ personal signatures on specific documents to make them financially liable for defrauding their students. But he already has them.
Posted inPodcasts
The Case for Student Debt Cancellation
Economist Marshall Steinbaum explains why the idea is both good and unavoidable.
Posted inDay One Agenda
How to Dismantle For-Profit Colleges, Without Congress
A previously undisclosed memo to the Education Department offers a step-by-step guide to closing predatory schools before they suck up more federal loans.
Posted inEducation in America
All Corinthian College Loans to Be Canceled
Thanks in large part to activist work from a group of debt strikers,
over half a million borrowers of the defunct for-profit college chain will have their
loans forgiven.
Posted inPodcasts
Why Racism Has No Place in the Academy
Two professors explain how tolerance of bigotry at colleges and universities undermines democracy and quality scholarship.
Posted inTAP
Cheap Grace
Today on TAP: Anti-slavery meets the modern sale of naming rights at Harvard.
Posted inEducation in America
Means-Testing Student Debt Relief: Big Hassle, No Results
Almost nobody will likely fall above the proposed income threshold. It’s purely a tax on borrowers’ time.
Posted inTAP
Going Small
Today on TAP: Why does Joe Biden keep dithering on student debt cancellation?
