Education coalition assails wide use of temporary faculty
Elite colleges are being reserved for the very wealthy and higher education for the 99 percent becoming more standardized, impersonal, low quality or completely out-of-reach.
Phone conference: DREAM activists put it all on the line for immigration justice
Please dial in to join us for an important teleconference Tuesday evening, May 21, called "Dream activists put it all on the line for immigration justice"
Those pushing school reform have never been in a classroom
Respect teachers? The Republican-dominated Michigan legislature has done the exact opposite.
Students strike vs. standardized tests, school closings (with video)
High school students went on strike today, refusing to participate in the second day of standardized testing.
Obama's student loan plan: Short-term gains, no solutions
With the economy still "depressed" and student debt at an all-time high, policymakers and students should be discussing reforms to the way interest rates are calculated.
$1 trillion in debt, students lobby Congress for action
College activists lobbied Congress for relief last month during the United States Student Association's annual legislative conference.
Bus tour solicits New Yorkers' priorities for schools
NEW YORK - After more than a decade of Mayor Michael Bloomberg's corporate restructuring of public education, a coalition of community groups hit the streets to ask New Yorkers, especially parents, what their priorities really were.
University of Wisconsin takes off its cap
What a rat race! No, I don't mean the auto industry or Silicon Valley, or even the vicious corporate American scene. I mean academia.
Today in black history: Harold Washington won the mayoral primary in Chicago
In 1983, Washington won the Democratic mayoral primary and later was elected the first African-American Mayor of Chicago, serving from 1983 until his death in 1987.
Public education under attack, say Michigan school superintendents
Republicans are shamefully using the lame duck legislative session to ram through extremist legislation to overhaul public education in radical and dangerous ways.
