Conservatives Blast Educators but Don’t Offer Solutions
COMMENTARY | In one of the most desperate attempts to appeal to the simple, conservative activists have released a video accusing teachers unions of bullying students, according to Reuters. It doesn’t seem a lot of thought went into this latest gimmick.
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Conservatives Blast Educators but Don’t Offer Solutions
Amid student loan tussles, more seek "forgiveness"
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Elbot Carman, a 25-year-old aspiring graphic designer, made so little money after earning his master’s degree last year that the U.S. government now says he can hold off making payments on his school loans. Carman owes $140,000 in a mix of government and private student loans. Last year he earned $12,000. “That was so low that they are not requiring me to make a payment this year,” said Carman, who works a paid and an unpaid internship and recently moved back in with his mother in Lawrenceville, Georgia to cut costs. …
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Amid student loan tussles, more seek "forgiveness"
How to Defend a Racist Article Someone Else Wrote
If you haven’t heard, Naomi Schaefer Riley has been sacked by The Chronicle for Higher Education for her two, trolling blog posts about the elimination of black studies in universities. But that hasn’t stopped some of her defenders from taking various routes to defend her racist posts.
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Budget proposes $71M in cuts to Louisiana colleges
Louisiana’s public colleges face cuts of at least $71 million in next year’s budget proposal — which awaits debate on the House floor this week — and higher education leaders will be pushing a bill to allow the schools to raise new fees on students to cover the gap.
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Budget proposes $71M in cuts to Louisiana colleges
Cities seek more money from tax-exempt colleges
Wary of tax increases, weary of layoffs and determined to avoid bankruptcy, Providence Mayor Angel Taveras had only to gaze up at his city’s Ivy League campus to see a way out of the morass.
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Education Secy Arne Duncan Endorses Same-Sex Marriage
Secretary of Education Arne Duncan endorsed same-sex marriage this morning on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” When asked whether he thought same-sex couples should have the legal right to marry, Duncan said simply, “Yes. I do.” This news comes on the heels of Vice President Joe Biden’s…
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Arne Duncan: Gay marriage should be legal
A day after Vice President Joe Biden said he was “absolutely comfortable” with gay marriage, signalling the Obama administration’s evolving views on same-sex marriage, Sec. of Education Arne Duncan said on “Morning Joe” that he believes it should be legal.”Yes, I do,” Duncan said when asked by MSNBC’s Mark Halperin if same-sex marriage should be legal in the United States.Duncan said he’s never said that publicly because, “I don’t know if I’ve ever been asked.”"It only took minutes for the White House to try to fix Joe Biden’s comments,” fellow “Morning Joe” panelist Andrea Mitchell joked. …
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Summary Box: Yahoo CEO faces possible firing
JOB IN JEOPARDY: Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson could be fired after just four months at the struggling Internet company because he allowed an inaccuracy about his college education to appear in his official bio, including a version filed with securities regulators.
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Hawaii teachers union to revisit rejected contract
Hawaii’s teachers union has embarked on the unprecedented move of asking its members to revisit a contract they rejected earlier this year, as part of an effort to prevent the state from losing a $75 million federal grant it received to carry out education reforms.
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Striking new tone, Chris Christie says education reform is led by GOP
Chris Christie, the Republican governor of New Jersey, said Thursday that Republican politicians are leading the way for better educational opportunities for poor and minority children through voucher programs for private schools, while Democrats passively stand by or obstruct their efforts. The partisan framing of his education agenda is a bit of a departure from Christie’s earlier praise of President Barack Obama’s education reforms, and may hint at how the issue will play out in the presidential campaign. …
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Striking new tone, Chris Christie says education reform is led by GOP