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Good schools are essential to democracy and prosperity—and it is our collective responsibility to educate all children, not just a fortunate few, according to a manifesto on the Education Opportunity Network. To rebuild America, we need a vision for 21st-century education based on seven principles, it urges.
Posted on Jun 13, 2013
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Bob Englehart, Cagle Cartoons, The Hartford Courant —
Posted on Jun 7, 2013
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By Frank Pepper —
My 13-year-old son was recently suspended from his private school twice in less than a month.
Posted on May 29, 2013
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The Chicago Board of Education voted last week to close 50 of the city’s public schools as part of Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s plan to save more than $500 million, or half the district’s deficit. Some 30,000 students will be affected, about 90 percent of them African-American.
Posted on May 28, 2013
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Kap, Cagle Cartoons, Spain —
Posted on May 27, 2013
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The Democratic senator from New York has proposed legislation that would allow holders of student debt to refinance their loans at lower interest rates, a move that could save tens of millions of borrowers a combined $14.5 billion in the first year.
Posted on May 20, 2013
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By Robert Reich — Many of you soon-to-be college graduates are determined to make the world a better place. But many of you are cynical about politics. “What chance do we have against the Koch brothers and the other billionaires?” you’ve asked me. “How can we fight against Monsanto, Boeing, JPMorgan and Bank of America? They buy elections. They run America.”
Posted on May 14, 2013
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By Frank Pepper —
Since I’m a public school teacher, everybody always asks me what I think about charter schools. You got an hour?
Posted on Apr 24, 2013
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By Henry A. Giroux, Truthout —
Occasionally we meet the unsullied images, history and legacy of intellectuals who symbolize a rare combination of civic courage, political commitment and rigorous scholarship. Angela Davis is one of those exemplary individuals.
Posted on Apr 11, 2013
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By Mattea Kramer, TomDispatch —
If we had a government capable of honoring the collective desire for more jobs, smaller deficits, more education funding, reduced reliance on fossil fuels and Medicare and Social Security benefits preserved, our future could be guaranteed at tax time in no time.
Posted on Apr 11, 2013
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By Frank Pepper —
Never mind, data is good, data is great. It can’t hurt to give the tests, right? Oh, but it can, it really can.
Posted on Apr 2, 2013
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By Eugene Robinson — It is time to acknowledge that the fashionable theory of school reform—requiring that pay and job security for teachers, principals and administrators depend on their students’ standardized test scores—is at best a well-intentioned mistake, and at worst nothing but a racket.
Posted on Apr 1, 2013
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By Marian Wang, ProPublica —
Student fees have been something of a known irritant for years, often criticized as a kind of stealth, second tuition imposed on unsuspecting families. But such fees are still on the rise on many campuses. And though their names can border on the comical—i.e., the “student success fee”—there’s nothing funny about how they can add up.
Posted on Mar 31, 2013
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By C.J. Polychroniou, Truthout —
Higher education must be understood as a democratic public sphere—a space in which education enables students to develop a keen sense of prophetic justice, claim their moral and political agency, utilize critical analytical skills, and cultivate an ethical sensibility through which they learn to respect the rights of others.
Posted on Mar 27, 2013
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By Paul Cummins and Ray Reisler —
If income divide is at the root of current public education deficits, that chasm must be narrowed by reducing the factors that perpetuate poverty.
Posted on Mar 26, 2013
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Pat Bagley, Cagle Cartoons, Salt Lake Tribune —
Posted on Mar 21, 2013
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Back when I was a freshman in high school, a senior made a short documentary about a group of extremely young feminists in my class who were dismissed as “dirty girls.”
Posted on Mar 15, 2013
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Louisiana taxpayers are footing the bill for certain students in the state to go to private schools that are teaching some pretty “questionable” things.
Posted on Mar 11, 2013
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By Paul Von Blum — The modern civil rights movement occurred long before millions of Americans were born, but many participants and observers are still available to recount their stories.
Posted on Feb 28, 2013
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By Chase Madar, TomDispatch —
Outrage over the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre may or may not spur any meaningful gun control laws, but you can bet your Crayolas that it will lead to more 7-year-olds getting handcuffed and hauled away to local police precincts.
Posted on Feb 27, 2013
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On March 1, the $85 billion collection of budget cuts known as the sequester could wipe out federal programs at such varied places as national parks, the Pentagon and the FBI. Hidden among those cuts are reductions in services that are crucial to Americans’ everyday lives—education, health care and jobs. The Guardian tells us what to expect.
Posted on Feb 22, 2013
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Florida Atlantic University’s new 30,000 seat football stadium will bear the name of its sponsor, GEO Group, the second-largest private prison operator in the U.S.
Posted on Feb 21, 2013
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AP/Jamie Martin
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The GOP isn’t known for being the party of science—far from it, in fact—so when one of its own reaches a new low in scientific stupidity, it’s worth noting.
Posted on Feb 18, 2013
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The location of a former training camp where Stasi operatives were taught to retrieve secrets through sex now houses a free-love commune; filibuster reform was blocked and now, for the first time in history, a secretary of defense nomination has been filibustered; meanwhile, Al-Jazeera has been accused of developing a political agenda since the Arab Spring. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on Feb 18, 2013
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — We interrupt this highly partisan and ideological moment with some contrarian news: President Obama is not the only politician who thinks that expanding access to pre-Kindergarten is a good investment.
Posted on Feb 17, 2013
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — I disagreed with former President George W. Bush on many things. But on one issue, I admired him greatly: He was wise enough to marry a teacher and a librarian.
Posted on Feb 10, 2013
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“The increase in the amount of defaulted loans among poor students comes as President Barack Obama says he wants to expand access to college for working-class families and increase funding for the Perkins program,” Bloomberg reports.
Posted on Feb 5, 2013
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In her first video statement since she was shot and nearly killed by the Taliban in October over her support of girls’ education, the 15-year-old Pakistani schoolgirl says she will continue the campaign that led to her being attacked.
Posted on Feb 4, 2013
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By Zack Kopplin —
We’ve pushed standards, testing and accountability for public schools, so why shouldn’t private institutions receiving taxpayer money have to meet those same requirements?
Posted on Feb 1, 2013
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Monte Wolverton, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Jan 22, 2013
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“The lady on the phone said they could transfer my daughter and said her boobs were so large she will always get teased,” the teen’s mother said. “And the only suggestion she had for me is to have my daughter get a breast reduction.”
Posted on Jan 21, 2013
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High school teacher Jeffrey Wright has turned his own life experience parenting a special needs child into a lecture that profoundly impacts his students’ lives. “When you start talking about physics, you start to wonder, ‘What is the purpose of it all?’ he says. “Kids started coming to me and asking me those ultimate questions.”
Posted on Jan 9, 2013
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By Alexander Reed Kelly — The Taliban tried to kill 14-year-old Malala Yousafzai because people listened when she said they didn’t have to bow to the intimidation of violent, ideological extremists.
Posted on Jan 5, 2013
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Angel Boligan, Cagle Cartoons, El Universal, Mexico City —
Posted on Jan 4, 2013
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Signe Wilkinson —
Posted on Jan 4, 2013
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Jeff Parker, Cagle Cartoons, Florida Today and the Fort Myers News-Press —
Posted on Dec 23, 2012
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Although gun policy is certainly important to talk about in the aftermath of the Sandy Hook tragedy, mental illnesses may be more crucial to discuss; President Obama fed the loyal Susan Rice to the sharks for the same reasons he’s both feared and admired; meanwhile, education is becoming a commodity rather than a right thanks to the neoliberal agenda. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on Dec 17, 2012
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By Mike Rose — Right at the point when they are most needed, our second-chance institutions are being severely threatened. Across the country, community colleges, adult schools and literacy programs are reporting record enrollments at the same time they have to trim staff, classes and services.
Posted on Dec 12, 2012
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By Mike Rose — The college-for-all versus occupational training debate is typically focused on structural features of the K-12 curriculum and on economic outcomes with little attention paid to the intellectual and emotional lives of the young people involved—their interests, what has meaning for them, what they want to do with their lives.
Posted on Dec 9, 2012
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After the president of one of the last tuition-free universities in the United States announced that it would begin charging fees for graduate programs, 11 students occupied a campus building to “demand that the school reaffirm its commitment to providing free education” and a revision of the university’s management style.
Posted on Dec 4, 2012
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David Fitzsimmons, Cagle Cartoons, The Arizona Star —
Posted on Nov 9, 2012
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