by Jeff Bryant | Sep 14, 2015 | Blog, Education
"We're making decisions just based on the money.” That’s Rosemarie Jensen talking, a tone of exasperation creeping into her voice as she describes the influence of money on education policy in South Florida. “Some things should be run like a business," she tells me in...
by Roger Hickey | Sep 13, 2015 | Blog, Education
MaryGreenSwig Steven L.Swig RogerHickey The student debt many Americans took on in their youth is following them to the grave. Now many of these student debtors are seniors whose Social Security benefits are being garnished to continue to pay those loans they took out...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Sep 11, 2015 | Education
[fve]https://youtu.be/4kzDSDBkFB8[/fve] A new study released by Brookings this week offers new context for the debate on the student loan crisis by shining a light on the outsized role of for-profit colleges in increasing debt and loan defaults. "The so-called student...
by Jeff Bryant | Sep 10, 2015 | Blog, Education
The recent ruling by the supreme court of Washington state that charter schools are unconstitutional because they aren’t really public schools has sent advocates for these schools into a fit. But their often over-the-top criticisms of the decision are reflective of...
by Jeff Bryant | Sep 9, 2015 | Blog, Education
As schools across Pennsylvania open their doors for the new school year, there’s one district in the state where teachers will be hard at work even though they’re not likely to get paid. The teachers are actually already on the job, having reported for work a week...
by Bernie Horn | Sep 1, 2015 | Blog, Education
A few states have now released results from the Common Core standardized tests administered to students last spring. The Associated Press recently published a story about them, and over the next couple of months we can expect a flood of press releases, news articles...
