Education

For Students in Foster Care, A Helping Hand in the High School Admissions Process

By Geoff Decker / Gotham Schools

NYC's Dept. of Ed is working to provide children in foster care extra attention as they seek high school placement.

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Getting a Subprime Education in America

By Tom Engelhardt / Tom Dispatch

4 Disturbing Ways Big Banks Have Turned Colleges Into Money-Grubbing Institutions

By Noah S. Bernstein / AlterNet

A Guide to Resisting Debt -- For Students and the Rest of Us

By Shay O'Reilly / Campus Progress

Anti-Teachers' Union Film Is Biggest Flop in Decades

By Sarah Seltzer / AlterNet

At This Fiscal Crossroads, Let's Talk About the Common Good and Our National Future

Consolidating College Diversity Departments? CA Austerity Measures Attempt to Silence Those Who Critique Them

4 Ways College Admissions Committees Stack the Deck in Favor of Already Privileged Applicants

Education

Will Students Vote in November? A Few Good Perspectives from the National Student Power Convergence

Zachary A. Bell / TruthOut.org

The Littlest Missionaries: A New Christian Plot to Invade Public Schools

Katherine Stewart / Comment Is Free

5 Biggest Lies About America's Public Schools -- Debunked

Kristin Rawls / AlterNet

Five Big Issues You Won't Hear About in the Presidential Debates

Mattea Kramer / TomDispatch

What is the SAT Good For? Absolutely Nothing

Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. / Daily Kos

Wall St.'s Next Profit Scheme -- Buying Up Every Piece of Your Home Town

Michael Hudson / Michael Hudson's blog

Hey, Corporate Reformers: Guess What? We Won't Back Down, Either

Jessie B. Ramey / Yinzercation

"Won't Back Down" Presents a Ruling-Class Wet Dream: Teachers and Parents Working to Destroy Their Own Institutions

Liza Featherstone / Dissent Magazine

Mitt Romney: Free Speech Is for Billionaires, Not School-Teachers

Joshua Holland / AlterNet

Schooling Beyond Measure

Alfie Kohn / Education Week

New York's Plan to Mainstream Special Ed Students Gets Off to a Rocky Start

Rachel Cromidas / Gotham Schools

Outrage: Why Are 6th Graders Being Drug Tested?

Alex Kane / AlterNet

What's Wrong with American Education Policy? It's as Simple as A-B-C

Paul Buchheit / UsAgainstGreed.org

10 Great Paying Jobs You Can Get Without a 4 Year College Degree

Nola Ogunro / Madame Noire

In Just Weeks, Affirmative Action As We Know It Could Be Dead

Khalil Abdullah / New America Media

Undocumented and Unafraid: Tam Tran, Cinthya Felix, and the Immigrant Youth Movement

Kent Wong, Janna Shadduck-Hernández, Fabiola Inzunza, Julie Monroe, Victor Narro, Abel Valenzuela Jr. / UCLA Center for Labor Research and Education

Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis: "Victory for Education" Comes from Strike

Amy Goodman / Democracy Now!

Why Sneering at Public Servants Comes So Naturally to Many of America's Richest Citizens

Sam Pizzigati / Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality

Did Quebec’s Election End the Student Movement?

Zachary A. Bell / AlterNet

Shocking Report Explodes 5 Myths About American Education

Les Leopold / AlterNet

Is 'Teacher Accountability' Ready for Prime-Time?

Richard Rothstein / Economic Policy Institute

4 Ways Christianity Sneaks Into Our Secular Government -- And Why it Matters

Greta Christina / AlterNet

What’s Red and Black and Controlled Independently by Students?

Polina Marinova / YES! Magazine

Are For-Profit Colleges the Answer for Black Students?

Julianne Hing / Colorlines.com

Teachers and the Death of the American Worker

Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. / Daily Kos

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