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The newspaper should be taking a stand against education scams—but it’s dependent on one such program for its profitability.

A tribute to the recently departed scholar Manning Marable, by a close friend.

Women Under the Budget Knife

Despite all the talk of shared sacrifice, the drastic slashes to public sector jobs and social programs will hurt women the most.

Maya Soetero-Ng

Like her brother, President Obama, Soetoro-Ng wants to revamp school systems and broaden test-focused curriculums.

Proposed budget cuts and threats to collective bargaining are already damaging public education in Wisconsin.

A Palestinian's odyssey in a Middle East ablaze.

Tiger Mom

Whether you're a tiger mother, a soccer mom, a helicopter parent or something else, if you're not in poverty, then your kids will probably end up okay.

As a mentoring program shows, the arc of a child’s life can be altered by a single stable adult.

The real dilemma in Amy Chua's book is how to survive in a world in which the slightest nonconformity risks landing you out of a job, a home, a life.

What is the state of the union? You certainly couldn’t tell from that platitudinous hogwash that the president dished out.

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Of the 17 million college students in the United States, more than half a million of these students are over the age of 50. More and more schools are offering discounts and tuition wavers for these "lifelong learners."

August 10, 2010

The question remains what will be done about the practices exposed by the GAO report.

August 5, 2010

 One Canadian university is sending students to help green small rural communities in Alberta.

August 4, 2010

If we can't find a way to pay living wages for kindergarten teachers, who are we?

August 3, 2010

How does a student afford mandatory expenses for college without graduating $5,000 or more in the red? Consider credit unions, instead of credit card companies.

August 3, 2010

In a society where a bachelor’s degree is the new high school diploma and a master’s degree is the new bachelor’s, the issue of college affordability is a common concern.

July 27, 2010

College students currently spend an average of $900 a year on textbooks—a number that has increased at four times the rate of inflation since 1994.

July 26, 2010

Without accurate reports and transparent outcomes, the urgent need to implement high school reforms could pass without notice.

July 9, 2010

With conservatives increasingly shaping educational policies in states such as Arizona and Texas, The Nation's Melissa Harris-Lacewell wonders whether progressives are in danger of losing the youth to the right?

June 25, 2010

Who’d have thought a celebrated Ivy League medical center would be practicing genital cutting on small children?

June 21, 2010
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