by Jeff Bryant | Jun 29, 2012 | Blog, Education
With the glow of high school graduations still lingering in many American families, and analysts predicting that an"economic recovery" is on the way, this is a time when you'd expect to start hearing more positive news about the state of US public education. You'd be...
by Terrance Heath | Jun 29, 2012 | Blog
President Obama is visiting Colorado today, one day after the Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act. The state is the site of two major disasters. The first disaster is, of course, the wildfires now on record as the most destructive the state has ever seen....
by Terrance Heath | Jun 29, 2012 | Blog
Now that our "do nothing" Congress is finally set to "do something" to stop interest on student loans from doubling, I think I’ve finally figured out what motivates conservatives on education in general, and conservative opposition to student loans in general....
by Terrance Heath | Jun 29, 2012 | Blog
Today was a victory. I'll leave it to others to analyze the margins of that victory, parse out what the majority of the Court did and didn't say, and what it means for the progressive movement, the health care reform movement, Democrats, Republicans, the tea party,...
by Dave Johnson | Jun 28, 2012 | Blog
The student loan deal is badly needed. It should have just been extended - duh! But the 1 percenters took it hostage and demanded their pound of flesh before We, the People can preserve even this little bit of what we do for ourselves. So as part of the "sweetener"...