Tag: higher education
Winners (and losers) in New York’s plan to make college free
The first-in-the-nation scholarship program would serve about 1.5 million full-time students. But there are downsides.
For-Profit Colleges Are Scandal Machines
This corrupt higher education "industry" ought to be put out of business.
Higher Education: Capitalism at Its Most Despicable
Public colleges have long been expected to benefit from academic research. But that all changed in 1980 with the Bayh-Dole Act. Now universities are more deeply entrenched in the capitalist world—a true degradation of higher education.
Scott Walker Cuts Higher-Ed Budget, Funds Corporate Welfare
Scott Walker claims he wants to be America's next president. But with a track record of slashing funding for higher education, busting unions and going after welfare recipients, is this what America really needs?
It’s Time to Free Students from Debt
"Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife." It's time we free students from debt and create a new debt-free democracy.
How Big Corporations Cheat Public Education
Corporations have been reaping the benefits of public education in the U.S. for more than 60 years and instead, are "skipping out on the taxes meant to sustain the educational system." Guess who suffers from repeated school cutbacks?
Student Debt: A Penalty the Poor Pay for Not Being Wealthy
There are two options for our future generations: get an education and agree to inescapable debt, or don’t get an education and the possibility of employment goes out the window. Student debt has become a trap.
Why College Isn’t (and Shouldn’t Have to be) for Everyone
Why do we encourage our young people through a single funnel called a four-year college education? It’s time we stop pressuring every young person to go to college and, instead, offer an alternative route into the middle class.
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Trump seizes control of DC police, threatens military deployment despite record-low crime
President Donald Trump invokes the Home Rule Act to take over Washington, D.C.’s police department and deploy the National Guard, citing a “crime emergency” that officials say does not exist. Critics call the move an unlawful power grab with authoritarian overtones.
Cults, cults, everywhere—raring to bash majority rule, pluralism, justice, science and rationality. Isn’t that...
Thanks to its own greed, egotism, buffoonery, incompetence, and ruthlessness, the MAGA cult is already splitting apart, squandering its overweening power.
Community organizer slams ‘fascist ICE agents’ after arrest of US citizen documenting raids
ICE has faced widespread backlash over the arrest of community advocates swept up while documenting raids across the country, many of them U.S. citizens.
The FDA let substandard factories ship these medications to the US
ProPublica identified more than 150 products that were exempted from import bans since 2013.
Leaked transcript reveals Netanyahu blocked ceasefire and imposed starvation in Gaza
Israeli cabinet minutes show Prime Minister rejected hostage deal, cut off all aid, and broke ceasefire to force Hamas surrender, triggering mass civilian deaths and famine.