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Hoop Dreams by Tamara Draut, OurFuture.org | March 16, 2006
It’s March Madness, baby . And on the heels of the much celebrated—and much gambled—NCAA tournament, a new ad campaign was announced yesterday. Not by Nike, or Adidas or Wilson. But by the American Council on Education. read more »Making America Family-Friendly by Tamara Draut, OurFuture.org | March 10, 2006
The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday about a shift underway in academia: making the tenure track more family-friendly. It may seem like a small development, but it’s actually quite seismic. read more »Economists' Death Match by Alexandra Walker, OurFuture.org | February 28, 2006
One supported NAFTA. The other opposed it. read more »The GOP's Pre-owned New Leader by Robert L. Borosage, | February 3, 2006
John Boehner's made a career from selling out struggling college students to his big donor friends in the student loan industry. read more »The America We Believe In by John Edwards, | January 31, 2006
The former vice-presidential nominee sketches a vision of a nation that works for all of us. read more »Wedges and Winning: Your Letters by Bill Scher, OurFuture.org | January 27, 2006
Where Dems should focus in 2006; student loan woes; turning the clock back on abortion: Readers react in this week's letters. read more »Bush: Back To The Bubble by Robert L. Borosage and Earl Hadley, | January 25, 2006
On student loans, the president gets schooled by a student from Kansas State. read more »The Unkindest Cuts by Anya Kamenetz, | January 12, 2006
Congress' most recent budget cuts put the biggest burden on those who can least afford it—college students. read more »Still Left Behind by Ross Wiener, The Washington Post | January 3, 2006
Why do we reward good teachers by moving them away from the students who need the most help? read more »Friedman, Vouchers And Katrina by Alexandra Walker, OurFuture.org | December 7, 2005
In Wrong Vouchers, Dr. Friedman , Greg Anrig Jr. of TPM Cafe says what Katrina survivors need most is not vouchers for private school, but public housing. And he chides Friedman for using the Katrina tragedy to push his political agenda of starving public education. read more »
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California: Protect Our Schools from Devastating Layoffs, action.aclu.org | August 8, 2010
The story itself is bad enough but it is also set against the backdrop of Californian civilisation being beaten back into some form of rootless serfdom as the institutions of good governance unravel and fail. more »
Will The GOP Senators Whose States Face Thousands Of Teacher Layoffs Vote Against Teacher Funding? , wonkroom.thinkprogress.org | August 3, 2010
Today, the Senate will be taking a procedural vote on a bill providing $26 billion in aid to state and local governments, $10 billion of which is dedicated to preventing teacher layoffs. This particular batch of funding has been included in, and then cut from, multiple bills, as each time conservatives have objected. more »
Senate Vote on Medicaid, Education Funds Delayed, thehill.com | August 3, 2010
The Senate tabled a jobs measure Monday because Democrats underestimated the package’s cost. Democrats had scheduled a vote to end debate on their proposal to send $10 billion in funding to states and local governments to prevent public teacher layoffs. The package contains another $16.1 billion to help states with Medicaid obligations.
Education Funds Out of Senate War Bill, Politico | July 23, 2010
The Senate sent back to the House Thursday night a stripped-down $59 billion war funding bill, after striking all of the added education assistance which Democrats had wanted to avert threatened teacher layoffs in the fall. more »
Krugman: we're paying the price of dumbing down America., The New York Times | October 11, 2009
American Graduates Finding Jobs in China, The New York Times | August 11, 2009
Shanghai and Beijing are becoming new lands of opportunity for recent American college graduates who face unemployment nearing double digits at home. Even those with limited or no knowledge of Chinese are heeding the call. They are lured by China’s surging economy, the lower cost of living and a chance to bypass some of the dues-paying that is common to first jobs in the United States. more »
Teachers Could Earn More Under Obama Plan, USA Today | July 24, 2009
States that want a piece of the Obama administration's $4.35 billion Race to the Top Fund for schools must hew to internationally benchmarked academic standards and let schools pay teachers and principals more if they work in hard-to-staff schools — or if student scores improve on basic skills tests. more »
Student Loan Measure Clears House Panel, The Washington Post | July 22, 2009
A bill that cleared a House committee would largely remove private lenders from the federal student loan industry, generating an estimated $87 billion savings over 10 years to fund more government grants and loans. more »
Black-White Student Achievement Gap Persists, MSNBC News | July 15, 2009
Despite unprecedented efforts to improve minority achievement in the past decade, the gap between black and white students remains frustratingly wide, according to an Education Department report. There is good news in the report: Reading and math scores are improving for black students across the country. more »
Obama Plans $12 Billion Boost To Community Colleges, USA Today | July 14, 2009
President Obama is expected to announce a $12 billion proposal today that will put the nation's community colleges front and center in his economic recovery plan. Among his goals: to modernize community college facilities, to increase the quality of online courses and to ensure that more students complete their programs. more »
