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Santorum living in stone-age

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

CNN - By Stephanie Coontz - Feb. 14 (Opinion) - Presidential candidate Rick Santorum is unhappy with last week's compromise over whether Catholic institutions should be required to cover contraception for their employees, arguing that birth control "shouldn't be covered by insurance at all."

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It’s Not About You

Tue, 31 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By David Brooks - May. 31 (Opinion) - College grads are often sent out into the world amid rapturous talk of limitless possibilities. But this talk is of no help to the central business of adulthood, finding serious things to tie yourself down to. The successful young adult is beginning to make sacred commitments — to a spouse, a community and calling — yet mostly hears about freedom and autonomy.

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On the Ground with a "Gap Year"

Tue, 03 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Gregory Kristof - May. 03 (Opinion) - When college does roll around, you’ll already have gone through your own freshman orientation. After getting lost in a remote village because I was seeking a familiar temple but was approaching it from a completely different direction, I learned that where you are going is not all that matters. Where you are coming from matters, too.

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The High Cost of Low Teacher Salaries

Sun, 01 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Dave Eggers, NÍnive Clements Calegari - May. 01 (Opinion) - When we don’t get the results we want in our military endeavors, we don’t blame the soldiers. We don’t say, “It’s these lazy soldiers and their bloated benefits plans! That’s why we haven’t done better in Afghanistan!” No, if the results aren’t there, we blame the planners. We blame the generals, the secretary of defense, the Joint Chiefs of Staff. No one contemplates blaming the men and women fighting every day in the trenches for little pay and scant recognition. And yet in education we do just that. When we don’t like the way our students score on international standardized tests, we blame the teachers. When we don’t like the way particular schools perform, we blame the teachers and restrict their resources. Compare this with our approach to our military: when results on the ground are not what we hoped, we think of ways to better support soldiers. We try to give them better tools, better weapons, better protection, better training. And when recruiting is down, we offer incentives.

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How to Get a Real Education

Sat, 09 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Wall Street Journal - By Scott Adams - Apr. 09 (Opinion) - Forget art history and calculus. Most students need to learn how to run a business, says "Dilbert" creator Scott Adams.

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How universities close the door on the working class

Sun, 19 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

The Guardian - By Barbara Ellen - Dec. 19 (Opinion) - This is a covert nobbling of poorer students ill-versed in the dark art of "admissions freemasonry" Never mind Santa, a new class divide rule has come to town. Forget all that complicated stuff about poverty, housing et al, this one is a simple education question: "Could you tell a 14-year-old which subjects are required at GCSE and A-level to take them all the way to study at a top university, such as one in the Russell Group?" If you think you could do this, and I'm sure the majority of you can, then you are probably middle class. Or it could be that you are not quite sure. Maybe even some of you, or your children, are currently applying for a course at a top university and have already proudly scribbled down A-levels in, say, law, art & design, or business studies. Which tells me, my sweets, that not only are you most probably either working class, or lower middle class, you are also almost definitely screwed. Ofqual , the exam regulatory body, has instructed universities to simplify ...

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The Subprime Crisis of Student Debt

Sat, 29 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Ron Lieber - May. 29 (Opinion) - Is it really worth $100,000 in debt to graduate from a top school? And is it responsible?

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Do colleges redline Asian-Americans?

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Boston Globe - By Kara Miller - Feb. 08 (Opinion) - Take 1,623, for instance. That’s the average score of Asian-Americans, a group that Daniel Golden- has labeled “The New Jews.’’ l, much like Jews a century ago, Asian-Americans tend to earn good grades and high scores. And now they too face serious discrimination in the college admissions process.

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The New Untouchables

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Thomas L. Friedman - Oct. 21 (Opinion) - Those who create services, opportunities and ways to recruit work can compete on the world market. That is the key to understanding our education challenge today.

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The Uneducated American

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Paul Krugman - Oct. 09 (Opinion) - ...in the years after World War II, America established a commanding position in higher education. But that was then. The rise of American education was, overwhelmingly, the rise of public education — and for the past 30 years our political scene has been dominated by the view that any and all government spending is a waste of taxpayer dollars.

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Which High School Students Are Most Likely to Graduate From College? - Yahoo! News

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

U.S. News & World Report - By Kim Clark Kim Clark - Sep. 10 (Review) - Parents: Stop fretting so much about which high school your youngsters attend or how they score on the SATs. If you want your student to make it to a bachelor's degree, it's far more important for him or her to earn at least B's in high school and reach for the best possible college. Oh, and saving a few thousand bucks by sending your kid to a community college could turn out to be an expensive mistake.

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Welcome to the ‘Club’

Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Charles M. Blow - Jul. 25 (Opinion) - For many black men, a negative, sometimes racially charged, encounter with a policeman is a far-too-common rite of passage.

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All right, everybody, let’s cool off

Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Boston Globe - By Derrick Z. Jackson - Jul. 25 (Opinion) - Crowley should never have arrested Gates for being upset at lingering police presence in his home, having proved it was his. But Crowley’s history is that he’s not a rogue policeman. Gates calling him one on national TV Wednesday blurred the line between the act and the man.

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School Days

Mon, 08 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New Yorker - By Jeffrey Toobin - Jun. 08 (Interview) - William G. Bowen joined the faculty of Princeton in 1958. He became provost in 1967 and served as president of Princeton from 1972, the year Sonia Sotomayor matriculated as a freshman, until 1988. At Princeton, Bowen was involved in the decision to admit women to the university and recruit more minority applicants and faculty, and his 1998 book, “The Shape of the River,” co-written with the former Harvard University president Derek Bok, was the first extensive study of affirmative action in university admissions.

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Is University of Missouri's iPod Touch 'Requirement' Fair?

Wed, 20 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

PBS - By Bryan Murley - May. 20 (Comment) - But the "requirement" wasn't really a "requirement," if you read further into the Missourian article: The requirement will not be enforced, however, and there will not be a penalty for students who chose not to buy an iPod touch or iPhone, [Associate Dean Brian] Brooks said. "The reason we put 'required' on it is to help the students on financial need," Brooks said. "If it's required, it can be included in your financial need estimate. If we had not required it, they wouldn't be able to do that."

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Direct Federal Students Loans: a Better Option Than Relying on Private Lenders

Fri, 08 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - May. 08 (Editorial) - We see little compelling reason to continue propping up private lenders. Sallie Mae, the largest private lender, agrees. Its compromise proposal would also allow private firms to originate loans and then pass them on to the Treasury in return for fees.

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Government vs. the Private Sector: Health Care and Student Loans

Sat, 02 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Uwe E. Reinhardt - May. 02 (Opinion) - Sometime during the late summer we shall witness a High Noon moment on the issue of student loans. Who goes down in the shootout — the president or the private loan industry — may be an augury for the many shootouts yet to come in health reform.

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Obama says he's ready to battle on student loan reform

Fri, 24 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Boston Globe - By Foon Rhee - Apr. 24 (Speech) - Saying he feels their pain, President Obama today reached out to families struggling to pay college bills, highlighting his plan to revamp student loan programs to cut out private middlemen.

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Recession is the right time to put college in reach

Fri, 24 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Newsday - By Nicolaus Mills - Apr. 24 (Opinion) - Structural, not just incremental, change is needed now, and the most important step the government can take is to make it possible for students who take out loans for college to pay them back in a way that won't burden them for the rest of their lives.

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Young, Broke and Baby on Board

Wed, 25 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Root - By Michael Arceneaux - Mar. 25 (Comment) - “My post-college financial woes actually hit me before this monster of a recession grabbed a hold of the economy. I graduated from the University of Maryland in College Park with a Journalism degree in spring of 2006. Following graduation I took a month off and went overseas for a brief study abroad, telling myself I’d hit the ground running when I returned to look for a job.

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Duncan details $150 billion education stimulus

Fri, 30 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

CNN - By Campbell Brown, Arne Duncan - Jan. 30 (Interview) - CB: Mr. Secretary, the President's new stimulus plan includes a massive $150 billion increase in federal money for education. Walk us through what the priorities are and when parents can expect to see results. DUNCAN: This is an extraordinary opportunity and if we want to become a strong economy again, the best thing we can do is have an educated work force. So this is a huge, huge opportunity to make things dramatically better for schools and for school children around the country and at the higher Ed level as well. So the stimulus package is going to do a number of things. It's going to help us a tremendous unmet capital needs and so it's really going to be a huge opportunity to invest in infrastructure and several ready projects that we want to get to work on very early on, late spring and through the summer. We want to save literally hundreds of thousands of teaching jobs. We're very, very worried about tremendous cuts, devastating cuts in school districts and states around the country. We want to stay those off going into the fall. We want to continue to raise the bar academically, raise standards, raise expectations, and there's opportunities in the stimulus package to do that.

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Want to really stimulate the economy?

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Minneapolis Star Tribune - By Wy Spano - Jan. 28 (Opinion) - ver the last 30 years, American higher-education policy seems to have been designed to ensure poor economic performance in this country. In the economic stimulus package now being discussed, we can begin to reverse that course. Here's what happened: From the end of World War II through the 1970s, we seemed to think, as a nation, that providing higher education was the key to economic development. And it was. Higher education benefited the recipient and society, and society was willing to pay for that benefit. We paid partly through charitable donations, partly through public funds, and a little bit -- a very little bit -- through tuition. Then we changed our mind.

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McCain makes a serious error

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Seattle Post Intelligencer - Jun. 03 (Editorial) - analysts predict that ...[loss of re-enlistments] would be offset by an increase of that much or more in new enlistments of those enticed by the post service education benefits..... In the summer of 1964, another Arizonan, Sen. Barry Goldwater, then also the presumptive GOP nominee for president, made a similar mistake. Despite his family's and his longtime dedication to equal opportunity in their department stores and the senator's leadership in desegregating the Arizona National Guard, he was somehow persuaded to vote against the 1964 Civil Rights Act

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Mr. Bush and the G.I. Bill

Mon, 26 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - May. 26 (Editorial) - President Bush opposes a new G.I. Bill of Rights. He worries that if the traditional path to college for service members since World War II is improved and expanded for the post-9/11 generation, too many people will take it.

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Because It's Right

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Newsweek - By Anna Quindlen - Mar. 27 (Opinion) - Service members are surprised to discover that the grateful nation that made it possible for Sen. John Warner to go to both college and law school and Sen. Frank Lautenberg to graduate from an Ivy League university won't even cover three years at a public institution, much less a private college. Members of the National Guard and Reserves, who have been a linchpin of the current conflicts, receive only a fraction of that help.

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