What Were Naomi Schaefer Riley’s Editors Thinking?
By no means do we agree with Naomi Schaefer Riley’s assertions about black studies. But today we do find ourselves in a weird position of actually being sort of on the same page as Schaefer Riley, at least when it comes to questions about her editors. Sure, there’s the basic question of why The Chronicle of Higher Education allowed her work to go up on the site (which they haven’t taken down). But considering her body of work, why was it these particular posts that caused her firing?
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What Were Naomi Schaefer Riley’s Editors Thinking?
Mexicans in US protest mega-tycoon Carlos Slim
Mexican immigrant groups in the United States threatened Tuesday to boycott telephone companies owned by Mexican mogul Carlos Slim to protest what they say are abusive charges.
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Teachers suing NYC over school closings
Unions representing teachers and principals are suing the New York City to stop the official closing of 24 schools, arguing education officials are pretending to shutter the schools without actually changing anything significant in a bid to illegally get rid of staff.
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Ontario Teachers to back Ackman in CP Rail vote
(Reuters) – Ontario Teachers’ Pension Fund, a large Canadian Pacific Railway shareholder, will vote for William Ackman’s slate of directors instead of the incumbent board, strengthening the activist investor’s hand ahead of next week’s proxy showdown. Teachers said on Monday it would not vote for CP’s slate of proposed directors because the company’s performance has lagged its peers during Fred Green’s tenure as chief executive. …
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Number of PhDs receiving federal aid more than tripled from 2007 to 2010
Higher education is meant to be the path to success, but that conventional wisdom may not be entirely true.
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Number of PhDs receiving federal aid more than tripled from 2007 to 2010
Student loans: Do Republicans really think program is socialist?
President Obama repeated his drumbeat for student-loan relief on Friday, telling an audience of Virginia high school students that Congress must act soon to prevent a doubling of federal-loan interest rates.
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Ill. Senate votes to end legislative scholarships
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S.Africa’s Tutu brushes off US online petition row
South Africa’s veteran Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu on Wednesday brushed off rival online petitions as thousands of supporters rallied against calls for him to be banned from a US university.
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S.Africa’s Tutu brushes off US online petition row
Y! Big Story: Six things to know about U.S. immigration
The U.S. Supreme Court’s hearing on Arizona’s SB1070 comes at a time when illegal immigration from Mexico has fallen. The argument over unauthorized entry has drowned out some intriguing developments in America’s overall migrant population, including a rebound in international students in higher education and legal citizenship. Below, some facts and figures about who’s coming,
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Y! Big Story: Six things to know about U.S. immigration
Obama: College Debt ‘Not Something I Read About in Briefing Book’
BOULDER, Colo. — President Obama tonight cast himself as a champion of an affordable college education and drew a veiled contrast with Republican rival Mitt Romney in a speech before an electrified crowd at the University of Colorado. Calling a college education the “best tool…
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