Latest Education

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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
• Parsons: Organizing against Koch influence on college campuses

  Interview on how students, faculty, and community members nationwide are joining forces to build power, promote transparency, and limit corporate influence at the university level
• Pizzigati: When Dorms Mimic Mansions

  In a deeply unequal America, a deeply unequal system of higher education
• Toldson: Cheating, Bribes & Lies

  DOJ Charges Dozens of Rich Parents & Coaches in College Admission Scandal
• Urbain: Jared Kushner is Poster Boy for Elite Universities’ Pay to Play Scandal

  The scandal of parents paying to cheat their children’s way into elite US universities has put a harsh spotlight on the ultra-competitive college admissions process, in which the haves hold a massive advantage over the have-nots
• Burnette II: Teachers Asked to Swallow Concessions to Get Pay Hikes

  Protesters turn out against a bill in the West Virginia legislature that would have bundled teacher pay raises in a bill that would also expand charters and other elements unpalatable to many teachers in the state
• Jones: West Virginia Teachers Strike Again

  Appear to Score Another Victory
• Mochaidean: West Virginia’s Ongoing, Anti-Capitalist Struggle

  Should West Virginia strike again, it will be because the working-class educators of this state have developed a burgeoning class-consciousness that was lit last year, and is now carried on in the ranks of its militant citizens
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  Winslow: L.A. Teachers Showed Us How It’s Done

  We've heard that strikes are outdated and don't work. We’ve been told that union democracy takes too long and is too messy to work on a large scale. The L.A. teachers strike should finally set those myths to rest