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• Ryder: The game of musical chairs

  I’ve always considered Musical Chairs to be a metaphor for the world we live in. I’d like to think that we all might learn to play by a new set of rules where everyone gets a fair share and nobody gets hurt
• Yates: Radical Education

  There must be a relationship of mutual respect between teacher and student and a sense that both are part of a larger project, the liberation of humanity from the shackles of capitalism
• Allyn: New Mexico, Free College Tuition Regardless Of Income

  New Mexico Unveils Plan To Give Students Free College Tuition Regardless Of Income
• Pierre: What the Felicity Huffman Scandal Says About U.S.

  Low-income parents risk jail for putting their kids in better public schools, while the rich bribe colleges to shut the poor out
• Corbett: Education Leaders Voice Support for Sanders K-12 Plan

  "No president or presidential candidate has offered a proposal so bold and sweeping."
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  Bader: Should US Public Schools Eliminate Homework?

  “Many people are under the impression that homework is something that has to be done”
• ZAlbert: What school segregation looks like in the US today

  Segregation has spread beyond central cities
• Beckett: Bernie to Student Loan Sharks: Drop Dead

  Bernie Sanders, Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Pramila Jayapal just introduced a plan to completely eliminate student debt. Now let’s fight like hell for it
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  Wittner: Whatever Happened to an Affordable College Education?

  By the 2017-2018 school year, the average annual cost at public colleges stood at $25,290 for in-state students and $40,940 for out-of-state students, while the average annual cost for students at private colleges reached $50,900
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  Jackson: Freeing a generation from burden of college loan debt

  This is a question of priorities not resources
• Waldron: Coalition-Building in the Era of Educator Activism

  The enemies of public education are organizing. It's time to fight back
• Collins: Ending the Generational Abuse of Student Debt

  Ending the generational abuse of student debt will expand educational opportunity, unburden our young people, and boost the economy for all.
• Corbett: Sanders Unveils ‘A Thurgood Marshall Plan for Public Education’

  With his 10-point proposal to overhaul the nation's schools, the presidential hopeful said he aims to "guarantee every person in our country a quality education as a fundamental human right."
• Bryant: Government poured millions into failing charter schools

  Parents in New Orleans who are sick of the instability that temporary charter schools have brought to their community are organizing to repeal the state law that legalized charters
• Will: Teachers Are Paid Less Than Similar Professionals

  Overall, adjusted for inflation, the average weekly wage of public school teachers has decreased $21 from 1996 to 2018, while the weekly wages of other college graduates rose by $323
• Chesler: Making American Schools Less Great Again

  Teachers like me will be stepping out of our classrooms not because we don’t want to teach, but because we do
• Bryant: A Warning to #RedForEd Movement Everywhere

  A warning is coming from teachers in Sacramento who are threatening to walk off the job over alleged violations of their collective bargaining agreement with the district
• Reichman: Academic Freedom at Risk

  As higher education faces an increasingly dire crisis of underfunding, we look at one of the consequences of this crisis: the growing threat to academic freedom
• Pierre: The Real College Admissions Scandal

  Wealthy families have rigged college admissions for generations, but they want you to blame affirmative action
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  Baker: The Real College Admissions Scandal Is Structural Inequality

  Inequality was not a natural outcome of the market and technology — it was manufactured by design