Who Now Owns Students? Student Loan Debt Creating Serious Social and Economic Issues
Every single year, millions of young adults head off to colleges and universities all over America full of hopes and dreams. But what most of those fresh-faced youngsters do not realize is that by taking on student loan debt they are signing up for a life of debt slavery. Student [...]
Chicago Public Teachers Stage Historic Strike in Clash with Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Education Reforms
More than 29,000 Chicago public school teachers and support staff have gone on strike today after union leaders failed to reach an agreement with the nation’s third-largest school district over educational reforms sought by Mayor Rahm Emanuel. It is the first teacher strike in Chicago in a quarter of a century. Unresolved [...]
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Matt Damon and Reason TV Reporter, Cameraman On Teachers
A complete version of the much-played exchange between Matt Damon and Reason TV’s reporter and camera man.
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Student Loan Debt – Interactive Graph
INTERACTIVE STUDENT DEBT DATA – Per release: “The New York Fed today released new student loan data from Q1 2012 that presents a breakdown of various categories by age group and date back quarterly to 2005. … The amount of student loan borrowers increased roughly 14 million, to more than [...]
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The $1 Trillion Student Loan Time Bomb
Some points to consider: The growth of federal student loans outstanding in the past decade ($583 billion) is larger than the size of the government’s TARP bailout package ($431 billion). Borrowers who graduated had a default rate of 3.7 percent in 2009, while those who dropped out had a default [...]
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Legislator Mad Because School Vouchers Don’t Apply To Muslim Schools
It looks like someone’s pocket Constitution was lost before she voted in the Louisiana legislature. That’s Republican legislator Valarie Hodges, who wholeheartedly supported Bobby Jindal’s school voucher program. Well, she supported it until she discovered that — GASP! — state money could go to Muslim schools. Now she’s just horrified. [...]
What Do Teachers Do Part 3 – A Genius Artist At Work
In our continuing series in Education, What Do Teachers Do, we’re going to cover the talent and genius you will find in the educational institutions around the world, not just in the USA nor just in the Universities. Gregory Euclide is an artist and teacher living in the Minnesota River [...]
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No Child Left Behind Law Whittled Down By White House
IF YOU READ ONLY ONE THING – N.Y. Times 1-col. lead, “‘NO CHILD LAW WHITTLED DOWN BY WHITE HOUSE: WAIVERS FOR 26 STATES – Maneuver Fits Patter of Bypassing Congress to Shape Agenda,” by Motoko Rich: “In just five months, the Obama administration has freed schools in more than half [...]
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Innovation Down? Education Issues Up
Defining innovation down — TheDC’s Caroline May reports on a congressman who we should hope never becomes Secretary of Education: “Indiana Democratic Rep. Andre Carson claimed in late May that America’s schools should be modeled after Islamic madrassas in video that recently surfaced. ‘America will never tap into educational innovation [...]
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Student loan deal clears Congress
Student Loan Deal is down done. At least in Congress… On Friday, Senate leaders touted the bipartisan cooperation in ultimately reaching the agreement, which came earlier this week. “On the student loan issue, Republicans and Democrats worked hard to find common ground,” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said. “The [...]
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The Shirt Off My Back!! Canadian Students Strip In Protest Of Tuition Raises
Hundreds of protestors – many of them naked – flooded Montreal city centre last night to demonstrate against planned tuition fee rises. They were attempting to disrupt the celebrations surrounding this weekend’s Montreal Grand Prix by crashing a Formula One party for F1 officials and teams. Thousands of men and [...]
Obama Gets An A On His Education Report Card
Since taking office more than three years ago, Obama has prioritized education, pushing elementary and secondary education reform, helping states avoid George W. Bush-era school mandates and expanding federal financial aid for college students. He also funneled $100 billion to the states in the 2009 stimulus and has been slowly [...]
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Obama On Education and Protecting Teachers Jobs
So much for Scott Walkers ideas.. Does the Republican party understand a ‘jobs plan’? Think about it. From Politico: The $30 billion package to fill in the gaps left by slashed state education budgets failed to get a passing grade from Capitol Hill. And with summer vacation about to start [...]
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Student Loans Issue Up Again
GOP SEEKS UPPER HAND ON STUDENT LOANS – Republicans feel White House silence on a proposal to avert an increase in student loan interest rate has given them the high ground on the issue, Roll Call’s Meredith Shiner and Steven Dennis report: “Democrats appear flummoxed by last week’s offer from House [...]
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Suze Orman On Student Loan Debt
Suze Orman discusses student debt at the Remaking America Panel recorded January 12, 2012. “When you are taking out student loans (parents) be very very careful because some of them state that if the person you co-signed for dies you are stuck paying even if the student is no longer [...]
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Protests In Canada Lead To Mass Arrests
Nearly 700 arrests have been made overnight in Canada, during the latest protest in Quebec against a huge planned rise in student tuition fees. The rallies have been on-going for more than 100 days. Police in Montreal dispersed unsanctioned protests and arrested 518 demonstrators on Wednesday night. The arrests were [...]
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$1 Trillion In Student Debt!
STUDENT LOAN DEBT NEARS $1 TRILLION - Per New York fed: “In its latest Quarterly Report on Household Debt and Credit, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York … announced that student loan debt reported on consumer credit reports reached $904 billion in the first quarter of 2012, a $30 billion [...]
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Student Loans Running Out Of Time
TIME RUNNING OUT ON STUDENT LOANS - The student loan bill is still in limbo, which of course means that the ACA’s prevention fund is also in limbo. Privately, top Hill aides admit that an agreement is an uphill climb. The House has passed its bill, which uses elimination of the [...]
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Education IS Our Nations Future
From Crooks and Liars: This is the world we live in now, folks. One where conservatives think students borrowing money from the government is an “entitlement.” Back in the days when people were sane, we used to believe paying for our young people to be educated was an obligation of a [...]
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Loser Students Are An Economic Burden To America
I don’t think I could be any more outraged right now: Congresswoman Virginia Foxx told a radio interviewer last week that she has “very little tolerance for people who tell me that they graduate with $200,000 of debt or even $80,000 of debt, because there’s no reason for that.”1 Oh [...]
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Ok Mr. Obama Watch Where You Cut…
April 16, 2012 Obama Seeks to Eliminate DC Scholarship Program by Karla Dial In the eight years since it was created, the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program (DCOSP) has suffered three attacks from policymakers bent on seeing it dismantled. One of those came from Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin [...]
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Obama Will Curb High Tuition…
Here is another from the fantasy newsline – Byron Tau has published a new story at Politico.com!: Obama offers plan to curb high tuition ‘Higher education is not a luxury. It’s an economic imperative,’ the president says. Read More and Enjoy! Please do, education may have a factor in a countries [...]
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