Marie Cocco / TruthdigMay 3, 2007
The markers of a mushrooming student loan scandal are identical to so many of the rest: The Bush administration, determined to turn the federal government into a favor bank for its corporate cronies, ignored every indicator that the $85-billion-a-year student loan industry was rife with corruption. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigFeb 10, 2007
A year after its president was forced to resign because of a controversial remark about gender, Harvard University is about to appoint its first woman president. The promotion of Drew Gilpin Faust, a historian, will end a 371-year-long drought of female leadership at one of the nation's oldest institutions. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigFeb 2, 2007
Basketball superstar Baron Davis and the Chicago Bears' Brendon Ayanbadejo have started an organization to raise awareness of the dwindling enrollment of minority students at their alma mater, UCLA. California's anti-affirmative action Prop. 209 has had a devastating effect: This year's freshman class of 5,000 contains fewer than 100 African American students, 20 of them on athletic scholarship. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
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Staff / TruthdigAug 30, 2006
The national SAT score average has suffered its most severe drop in 30 years. Educators insist that kids are just as intelligent, but that a recent redesign of the test, which placed increased emphasis on math and critical reading skills, is to blame for the poor showing. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Jabari Asim / TruthdigJul 15, 2006
The gender gap among African-American college students is growing at a dangerous rate. And it's no wonder: The roots of the problem were obvious at my daughter's school, where many boys by age 10 had been socialized to be tough, regarding education with contempt and suspicion. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Ellen Goodman / TruthdigJul 6, 2006
Although it's sexier and more startling to talk about boys falling behind girls in schools, the real dividing line is race and class. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigJun 1, 2006
The California Assembly passed a measure to pledge the state's Electoral College votes to the presidential candidate who wins the national popular vote (as opposed to giving its Electoral College votes to the winner of the California popular vote).
This would come into effect only if enough other states passed similar measures. But if it happens, it will mean the end of the electoral college as we know it. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigMay 14, 2006
Almond, an adjunct professor at Boston College, has resigned his post to protest the college's choice of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as commencement speaker. "I cannot, in good conscience, exhort my students to pursue truth and knowledge, then collect a paycheck from an institution that displays such flagrant disregard for both," he writes.
Imagine if Colin Powell or George Tenet had shown this kind of moral fortitude. There might not have been a war. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigMay 11, 2006
Salon writer Rebecca Traister doesn't buy the Washington Post's big story about the causes behind an alleged rise in impotence among college students. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigMay 11, 2006
Now the Arizona senator says it's "an honor" to speak at the college of Jerry Falwell's, the same man he once called an "agent of intolerance." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigMar 7, 2006
Colleges and universities that accept federal money must allow military recruiters on campus, even in the face of the Pentagon's "don't ask, don't tell" policy on gay people. John Roberts wrote the 8-0 opinion. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
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