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What the Student-Loan Debate Overlooks
Biden’s loan-forgiveness plan offers younger Americans the same benefits that Boomers have been afforded all along
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As the school year begins, students and teachers are fighting back against an onslaught of attacks on antiracist and LGBTQ education
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Exploring alternative schools in Southeast Asia
The journey for lifelong learning was started by communities threatened by demolition
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Schools Should Prioritize Mental Health Resources — for Both Students and Staff
COVID has exacerbated long-standing mental health problems for educators and students amid a rush to return to “normal”
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How Progressives Can Win the War on Public Education
At the annual Netroots Nation gathering, progressives are told to lift up the values and villains of public education
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Community Schools Can Revitalize the Neighborhoods
The transformative approach to school improvement is a catalyst for community revival
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We Need Truly Free Community College for All
As a policy it's been dismissed, trivialized, and now back-burnered by a sympathetic President. But it would be a game-changer
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If Biden Can Cancel Some Student Debt, He Can Cancel All Student Debt in the US
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Joe Biden Could Have Gone a Lot Further on Student Loans
The president’s loan forgiveness plan is narrow and paltry—and his administration’s preparation to fend off outraged criticism from both sides of the aisle speaks volumes
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Enough With the Whining About Student Debt Forgiveness
The greed, self interest and racism of US citizens never ceases to amaze and appall me
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Want More Teachers? Start Valuing Education
Too many lawmakers are happy to dole out subsidies for the rich and corporations while resisting pay increases for educators
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No, Student Debt Relief Won’t Stoke Inflation
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Mitch McConnell’s Condemnation of Debt Relief Is Dripping With Hypocrisy
Too many people from previous generations enjoyed privileges afforded by things like the G.I. bill and properly funded public schools, climbed to the top of the ladder, and then pulled the ladder up behind them
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As students go back to school, staff strike for better pay and conditions
Widespread staffing shortages, burnout and large classroom sizes have spurred strikes at schools and campuses across the country
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Debt Collective’s Astra Taylor on Biden Plan & Need for Full Student Debt Relief
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We Can Do So Much More on Student Loan Forgiveness
That the president is calling for just $10,000 in loan cancellation, or, in the case of Pell Grant recipients, $20,000, is an insult
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Biden Student Debt Relief Plan a ‘Big Deal, But We Have Got to Do More’
"At a time of massive income and wealth inequality, education, from pre-school through graduate school, must be a fundamental right for all, not a privilege for the wealthy few."
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Biden’s Bifurcated Student Debt Cancelation Plan
A more equitable solution is to just cancel all debt over a course of a 10 or an even 5 year phase-ins
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Should We Let Scam-Artists ‘Educate’ Our Young People?
We’ve been doing just that — with our tax dollars
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Universities Are Plundering Cities
How Can This Relationship Change?
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Teachers and Port Workers Have Taken Over an Oakland School
Resisting the billionaire-ification of their city, workers and their families are offering a community-centered vision at Parker Elementary. And it’s working
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Now the Far Right Is Going After School Counselors
They’ve been called pedophiles, groomers, and “recruiters for the Transgender Cult”
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Teachers and Port Workers Have Taken over an Oakland School
Resisting the billionaire-ification of their city, workers and their families are offering a community-centered vision at Parker Elementary. And it’s working
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California becomes first state to implement Universal Meal Program for all children
Catalyzed by the pandemic, California and Maine are paving the way toward greater food justice
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The “Broken Windows” Approach to Teaching
We cannot continue to promote the same unjust and oppressive educational structures that have endured for centuries
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Face the facts: Donald Trump does not care about you or your kids
My duty to my students is to protect the learning environment and ending such derelict non-leadership is part of that duty that I share with teachers everywhere
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Education, Jobs and Capitalism
American capitalism has a hate-love relationship with the nation’s schools
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School Vouchers: The Silver Bullet of America’s Education
In instances where school vouchers have been partially adopted, the pedagogical results have been insignificant, if not shoddy
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Take the very nature of corporations. They’re based on what’s called “limit liability,” meaning if you’re a partner in a corporation and the corporation carries out mass murder, the participants aren’t guilty of it. So corporate mass slaughter is a huge phenomenon
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Freedom Dreams: Black Women and the Student Debt Crisis
A documentary, “Freedom Dreams: Black Women and the Student Debt Crisis,” profiles Black women struggling under the weight of student loan debt
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Why Closing Classics Depts. is a Catastrophe
Interview on why classics must remain in the curriculum
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On Economic & Business Schools
Interview about the state of economic and business education in universities today
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The goal is to ruin you permanently, to make an example of you so that other people don't take your cue and blow the whistle on waste, fraud, abuse, and illegality
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Postmodernism an Instrument of Power
Interview about postmodernism, how it is an instrument of power and why academics embrace it
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In Defense of Academic Freedom, Rockefeller Chapel, University of Chicago...
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In Defense of Academic Freedom, Rockefeller Chapel, University of Chicago...
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Dr. Akeel Bilgrami, Johnsonian Professor of Philosophy and Director of...
Blogs
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The Chicago Neighborhood Schools Fair: Colorful balloons and courageous resistance
“I’m proud that this Neighborhood Schools Fair came from neighborhood...
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Why is Corporate America fanning the flames of violence in Chicago
“At times like this when CPS is making an attempt...
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Chicago’s deadly border crossings: lives in the balance
There are no barbed wire adorned border walls. You won’t...
Books
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The Economics Anti-Textbook: A Critical Thinker’s Guide to Microeconomics
About this Book Mainstream textbooks present economics as an objective...
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Critical Theories, Radical Pedagogies and Social Education
Critical Theories, Radical Pedagogies, and Social Education: New Perspectives for...
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Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy and Civil Discourse
"Pedagogy of Freedom, Paulo Freire’s last will and testament, is...
