“Tax hikes in Arizona, Oklahoma, and other states will burden middle- and low-income workers.” More …
Education
Republican Assault on Graduate Education
“Science helped make America great; the Republican tax cut bill will move us in the opposite direction.” More …
Are Charter Schools the New Enron Scandal?
Paging Betsy DeVos: An alarming study links fraud in the Enron scandal to similar practices at charter schools. More …
GOP Tax Plan Rattles Higher Education
“Congressional Republicans’ plans to slap unprecedented new taxes on higher education have left college leaders shocked and scrambling — the latest salvo in what some observers say is a growing culture war on a higher education system seen as elitist and out of touch.” More …
GOP Tax Overhaul Would Eliminate Tax Breaks Used by Colleges and Students
Republican tax reform plan would tax large endowments and limit or kill key deductions, including one for student loan interest and another for graduate students. More …
Betsy DeVos Tells Consumer Watchdog to Back Off on Student Loans
“… the Education Department quietly informed the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau that it would stop sharing critical information on $1.3 trillion of federal student loans, ending a partnership that has let the CFPB sue loan companies and force others to change their practices in the nation’s second-largest household debt market.” More …
University of Wisconsin and the Aftermath of Destroying Professor Tenure
“This past June, American academia went into an uproar over Gov. Scott Walker’s new budget in Wisconsin, which not only cut $250 million from higher education, but also severly weakened shared faculty governance and effectively destroyed professor tenure at state universities: Specifically, any professor in the system—tenured or not—could be dismissed or laid off by the 18-member Board of Regents using maddeningly vague criteria: ‘when such an action is deemed necessary due to a budget or program decision requiring program discontinuance, curtailment, modification or redirection.'” More …
Teenage Pregnancy Prevention Is The Latest Front In The War On Science
“A few weeks ago, the Trump Administration suddenly killed a modest federal program, the Teenage Pregnancy Prevention program. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) summarily ended grants to hospitals, schools, and community groups after only three years of work, leaving service delivery and evaluation efforts in limbo.” More …
The Alt-Right On Campus: What Students Need To Know
“An old and familiar poison is being spread on college campuses these days: the idea that America should be a country for white people.” More …
Study Shows Online Charter School Students Are Seriously Lagging
“Students in the nation’s virtual K-12 charter schools — who take all of their classes via computer from home — learn significantly less on average than students at traditional public schools, a new study has found. The online charter students lost an average of about 72 days of learning in reading and 180 days of learning in math during the course of a 180-day school year, the study found. In other words, when it comes to math, it’s as if the students did not attend school at all.” More …