by Mary Green Swig | Steven L. Swig | Richard Eskow | May 8, 2015 | Blog, Education
MaryGreenSwig Steven L.Swig RichardEskow “The whole people must take upon themselves the education of the whole people and be willing to bear the expenses of it.” – John Adams, 1785 Momentum is building for an exciting “new” idea, one which is in fact far older than...
by Roger Hickey | May 4, 2015 | Blog, Education
Last week Sen. Elizabeth Warren, the Senate’s foremost advocate for lowering student debt and lowering the cost of college, received a petition signed by more than 240,000 people. The petition called on Congress and President Obama to cancel all student debt – all...
by Richard Long | Apr 29, 2015 | Blog, Education
Tyrone Hankerson, a graduating senior at Howard University, is in a particularly good position to see the impact of today’s student loan debt crisis firsthand – even though he has managed to head into graduation without student debt overhanging him personally. That is...
by Richard Eskow | Apr 28, 2015 | Blog, Education
This week Corinthian Colleges Inc. announced that it had “ceased substantially all operations and discontinued instruction” at its remaining campuses. That should have brought the indebtedness of its many defrauded students to an end. This "educational institution"...
by Jeff Bryant | Apr 23, 2015 | Blog, Education
The movement to boycott standardized testing has caught the media totally by surprise. The mostly parent-led effort that started with Facebook pages and neighborhood meetings has grown into a firestorm of resistance. As the Associated Press reported this week, "This...
by Jeff Bryant | Apr 23, 2015 | Blog, Education
No one likes a cheater. So you’d think plenty of people would be pleased to hear that educators in Atlanta, on trial for cheating on standardized tests, were found guilty of those charges and sentenced “harshly,” according to the New York Times. As CNN reports, of the...
