Education

We must hate our children

We crush them with debt to go to college -- and today, rates are actually set to double. Are we out of our minds?

Joan Walsh Monday, Jul 1, 2013 11:45 AM UTC 565
Business Student loan interest rates

School won’t let 12-year-old girl play football because of “lusting” male teammates

"The best I can up with is that men and women are created equal but different," an official said of the decision

Katie Mcdonough Monday, Jun 24, 2013 10:15 PM UTC 266
Life Sports, Sexism, Education, Religion

Judge rules that Fox Searchlight should have paid its interns

A federal court ruled the studio violated federal and state minimum wage laws by not paying "Black Swan" interns

Katie Mcdonough Wednesday, Jun 12, 2013 1:15 PM UTC 13
Media internships, Labor, labor laws

“Ability grouping” returns to the classroom

The controversial practice of clustering students by learning strengths and weaknesses is back in favor

Katie Mcdonough Monday, Jun 10, 2013 1:14 PM UTC 24
Life Education, ability grouping, Race

Red, blue states more brightly colored than ever

With Congress incapable of passing any kind of legislation, state governments are growing increasingly extreme

Robert Reich, ROBERTREICH.org Monday, Jun 10, 2013 1:00 PM UTC 28
Business RobertReich.org, New York, Kansas

Young, black and buried in debt: How for-profit colleges prey on African-American ambition

Useless degrees are now too-good-to-be-true tickets to the American Dream -- targeted at those who can't afford it

Kai Wright Sunday, Jun 9, 2013 11:00 AM UTC 185
Business Education, For-profit colleges

Michelle Rhee’s group finally drops anti-gay honoree

An 11-year-old's petition pushed StudentsFirst to denounce "Don't Say Gay" bill sponsor Tenn. state Rep. John Ragan VIDEO

Katie Mcdonough Wednesday, Jun 5, 2013 10:05 PM UTC 17
Life Video, studentsfirst

White pride in my classroom

He made me uncomfortable and challenged my worldview. But the biggest surprise: I ended up liking him

Ben Warner Wednesday, Jun 5, 2013 12:00 AM UTC 413
Life Life stories, Education, Racism

Mississippi gov. blames working mothers for America’s education woes

Miss. Gov. Phil Bryant said Tuesday that America’s educational problems began when "mom got in the workplace"

Katie Mcdonough Tuesday, Jun 4, 2013 5:04 PM UTC 19
Life Education, working moms

The fat-shaming of school “FitnessGrams”

If schools want healthy kids, how about letting them have more physical activity instead of incessant test prep?

Mary Elizabeth Williams Tuesday, Jun 4, 2013 12:00 AM UTC 18
Life Body Wars, Education, BMI

New data shows school “reformers” are full of it

Poor schools underperform largely because of economic forces, not because teachers have it too easy

David Sirota Monday, Jun 3, 2013 4:30 PM UTC 301
Politics Michelle Rhee, Education

Va. school board member asked to resign over racist Michelle Obama emails

School board member Herb DeGroft says the emails were meant to be "political" and not racist

Katie Mcdonough Friday, May 31, 2013 4:57 PM UTC 92
Life Michelle Obama, Barack Obama

Obama: Congress must act to keep student loan rates from ballooning

“If Congress doesn’t act by July 1, federal student loan rates are set to double," the president said on Friday

Katie Mcdonough Friday, May 31, 2013 2:35 PM UTC
Life student loans, Student Debt

Louisiana lawmakers: Creationism trumps the Constitution

State legislators vote to keep a creationism law on the books despite the Supreme Court ruling it unconstitutional

Katie Mcdonough Thursday, May 30, 2013 4:24 PM UTC 21
Life Creationism, Religion

Report: 1 in 5 public schools classified as “high-poverty”

The number of public schools serving majority low-income students is up 60 percent since 2000

Katie Mcdonough Thursday, May 30, 2013 3:48 PM UTC
Life Poverty, Education

Teacher may face disciplinary action after reminding students of their Fifth Amendment rights

High school teacher John Dryden warned students that a survey on drug and alcohol use could incriminate them

Katie Mcdonough Tuesday, May 28, 2013 5:10 PM UTC 18
Life High School, U.S. Constitution

You only hate grad school because you think you’re supposed to

So many publications are bashing the experience that dissatisfaction has almost become a self-fulfilling prophecy

Adam Waytz, Pacific Standard Sunday, May 26, 2013 3:00 PM UTC 18
Life Pacific Standard

When America became a third-world country

Public investment has been a key to U.S. prosperity for the past century. Sequestration will undo all that

Mattea Kramer and Jo Comerford, TomDispatch.com Tuesday, May 21, 2013 4:33 PM UTC 57
Business TomDispatch.com, Education

SAT’s right answers are all wrong

Retaking the test alongside my daughters, I learned (the hard way) that testmakers devalue critical thinking

Monica Cohen, LA Review of Books Monday, May 20, 2013 9:11 PM UTC 122
Life LA Review of Books, SAT

My crushing student debt

I didn't think twice about taking out a five-figure loan. Then I graduated with no money -- and no job prospects

Ken Ilgunas Saturday, May 18, 2013 11:00 PM UTC 157
Life Life stories, College, University

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