AltWeeklies Wire
Student Loans: Worth the Price?new
Between ever-increasing college tuitions and flattening of personal incomes for most middle- and low-income families, the only way many students can pay for college is to borrow.
Jackson Free Press |
Ronni Mott |
08-10-2012 |
Education
Will Litigate for Foodnew
Alumni say Florida Coastal School of Law exaggerated job opportunities, leaving them unable to pay their crippling student debt. Now they want a refund.
Folio Weekly |
Claire Goforth |
07-20-2012 |
Education
Schoolbooks and Sea Monstersnew
Why a widely reprinted story about creationist textbooks overlooks Louisiana's overarching public school problems.
Student Loans Tying You Down?new
Don't look for help from Congress's latest fix.
Chicago Reader |
Deanna Isaacs |
07-03-2012 |
Education
Tags: College Debt, Student Loans
Charleston County teachers to receive overdue salary increasesnew
Tempers were hot as ever at Monday night’s Charleston County School District board meeting, but the elected body managed to pass a $357 million general operating budget for the 2012-2013 school year that included salary increases for teachers.
Charleston City Paper |
Paul Bowers |
06-26-2012 |
Education
Teen's Letter About Life in a Violent City is Hand-Delivered to President Obamanew
Four people in 18-year-old Edgar Pagan's life have been been killed on the streets of Philly. Last week, he wrote a letter about the city's violence & failing schools that was hand-delivered to President Obama asking for help.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Tara Murtha and Edgar Pagan |
06-20-2012 |
Education
San Antonio's high dropout rates at the root of city's 'brain drain'new
Recent weeks have seen increasing talk from local leaders about education and San Antonio's economic future.
San Antonio Current |
Heywood Sanders |
06-19-2012 |
Education
Pols Need an Education - From Overseas
Public education is mirroring American society overall: a tiny island of haves surrounded by a vast ocean of have-nots. The idea neither party is willing to consider, is to replace localized control of education—funding, administration and curricula—with centralized federal control, as is common in Europe and around the world.
Tags: Education
Charter Schools Rock?new
Mississippi lawmakers' reticence to give charter schools a straight up-down vote may have a lot to do with the fact that most people don't have the vaguest inkling what the hell a charter school is.
Jackson Free Press |
R.L. Nave |
05-23-2012 |
Education
Will Wall Street Cool on Bridgepoint?new
Since its purchase by Bridgepoint Education, Iowa’s Mount St. Clare College has gone from spending $5000 per student per year on education to $700. Nearby University of Iowa spends $12,000 per student.
San Diego Reader |
Don Bauder |
05-11-2012 |
Education
Atlanta's School for Mad Mennew
The Creative Circus teaches its students how to be Don Draper without being an asshole.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Eric Celeste |
05-11-2012 |
Education
No Sex, No Educationnew
What's at stake in the Tennessee legislature's covert war on Planned Parenthood.
Nashville Scene |
Jonathan Meador |
05-10-2012 |
Education
TUSD and Desegregation: a Historynew
Desegregation efforts in the Tucson Unified School District started with a lawsuit filed 38 years ago. In 1974, two families filed separate lawsuits against the district to address disparities in the education of African-American and Mexican-American students...
Tucson Weekly |
Mari Herreras |
05-10-2012 |
Education
Ties That Bindnew
Internal struggles in the University of Arizona Mexican American Studies department continue to grow.
Tucson Weekly |
Mari Herreras |
05-03-2012 |
Education
A Harsh Lesson at Columbia
As Obama brings his rock-the-youth-vote campaign to the Morningside Heights neighborhood of New York City, he wants to be photographed in a sea of adoring youthful faces. And yet, through incompetence or cynical calculus, he's throwing some of the most inspiring, hard-working students in America under the bus.
Tags: Barack Obama, Election 2012
