Education

Universities Selling Out Important Research to Corporate Overseers

By Darwin BondGraham / East Bay Express

UC Regents recently approved a new corporate entity that will likely give a group of well-connected businesspeople control over how academic research is used.

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The 5 Biggest Stories from the Fight for the Survival of Public Education

By Jake Blumgart / AlterNet

North Carolina Undocumented Youth Hold ‘UndocuGraduation,’ Demanding Tuition Equality

By Dominic Powell / Imagine 2050

Would We Be Better off with Class-Based Admissions?

By Nikole Hannah-Jones / Pro Publica

12-Year-Old Girl Kicked Off Football Team Because Boys Had ‘Impure Thoughts’ About Her

By Travis Waldron / Think Progress

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Education

U.S. Supreme Court Chips Away at Affirmative Action

Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet

Christian School Bans 12-year-old Girl From Football Team, Cites Bible

Janet Allon / AlterNet

Disgusting! Top University Administrators Create Student Debt Slaves to Subsidize Summer Palaces, Ginormous Pensions

Yves Smith / Naked Capitalism

Why Everyone's Signing a New Declaration Deeming Education a Public Good

Richard Eskow / Campaign for America's Future

What Happens to Special-Education Students in a Landscape of 'School Choice'?

Molly Knefel / AlterNet

The Huge Growth of MOOCs Threatens America's Great Public University System

Emily Wilson / AlterNet

NYU’s Gilded Age: Students Struggle With Debt While Vacation Homes Are Lavished on the University’s Elite

Pam Martens, Russ Martens / AlterNet

This Week in Poverty: Congress Turns Its Back on Rural America

Greg Kaufmann / The Nation

62-Year-Old Former Cop and School Security Guard Caught Having Sex With 16-Year-Old Student

Alex Kane / AlterNet

Christian College Expels Student Over Lesbian Relationship--And Then Demands $6,000 in Tuition

Alex Kane / AlterNet

Minors Who Commit Sex Crimes Shouldn't Be Branded for Life as Sex Offenders

Lindsey Bever / The Guardian

How Corporate Greed Is Starving Our Public School System

Paul Buchheit / AlterNet

How Predatory Reformers Are Destroying Education and Profiting at Our Children's Expense

Michael Gecan / Boston Review

Why Elizabeth Warren’s Plan For Student Debt is an Economic Breakthrough

Ellen Brown / Web of Debt blog

How America's Bully Economy leads to a "Bully Society"

Jessie Klein / NYU Press

Texas Students Thrown in Jail for Days ... as Punishment for Missing School?

Joaquin Sapien / ProPublica

Catholic School Fires Teacher for Being a Domestic Violence Survivor

Steven Hsieh / AlterNet

Sacramento District Ignores Report Suggesting Closing Schools for Affluent White Kids, Instead Shutters Seven Schools Filled with Poor and Minority Kids

Steven Hsieh / AlterNet

Sick: Rhode Island Vocational School Pushed Disabled Students into Sweatshop Labor

Kristen Gwynne / AlterNet

Last Week in Poverty: Denying a Head Start in Washington State

Greg Kaufmann / The Nation

Activist for Undocumented Students Punks Audience with Fake Apology for Discriminatory College Applications

Alana de Hinojosa / AlterNet

Investing in Education Creates More Than Twice as Many Jobs as Military Spending

Jaisal Noor / The Real News Network

Class of 2013: All Dressed Up and No Place to Work

Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet

Watch: 11-Year-Old Tells Michelle Rhee's StudentsFirst to Drop Anti-Gay Honoree

Katie McDonough / Salon.com

An Education Framework for Lower-Income Youth that Focuses on Access and Community Leadership

David J. Maurrasse / Diversity & Democracy

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