A Virtual Memorial Brings a Sexual Assault Survivor’s Voice to the Stanford Campus
Visitors use an app that creates a digital memorial in a “contemplative garden” on the Stanford University campus.Courtesy Hope Schroeder Last Friday afternoon, Khoi Le adjusted the gray pipe cleaners keeping his glasses affixed to his face and surveyed the tiny garden at the south end of the Stanford University campus. A small crowd had…
A Federal Judge Just Ruled That Harvard Admissions Don’t Discriminate Against Asian American Students
Charles Krupa/AP A federal judge in Boston on Tuesday ruled that Harvard University did not discriminate against Asian American students, rebuffing for now a challenge to the use of race in university admissions that could ultimately reach the Supreme Court. In a 130-page ruling, US District Court Judge Allison Burroughs concluded that Harvard’s admissions process “passes…
The Bizarre Trump-Fueled Backlash to Healthy School Lunches
Party of One Studio Back in 2010, then–first lady Michelle Obama launched a nefarious scheme to turn school cafeterias into liberal indoctrination zones. Or at least that’s how Obama’s right-wing opponents portrayed the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act, a law she spearheaded that gave the National School Lunch Program its first nutritional update in more than…
Inside a Modern Alaskan Boarding School
In 1867, after its territorial acquisition by the United States, Alaska began a system of compulsory education for Indigenous children. It endured for more than a century, experimenting with different models of schooling Alaska Native youth that ranged from well-meaning paternalism to the overtly sadistic. Children as young as 5 were removed from their families…
Betsy DeVos Just Made It Harder for Defrauded Students to Get Their Debt Canceled
Oliver Contreras, AP Just in time for the start of a new school year, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on Friday finalized a new suite of changes to an Obama-era policy that targeted fraud at for-profit colleges. The new DeVos rule significantly raises the bar students have to clear in order to qualify for debt forgiveness…
Parents Are Giving Up Custody of Their Kids to Get Need-Based College Financial Aid
This story was originally published by ProPublica. Dozens of suburban Chicago families, perhaps many more, have been exploiting a legal loophole to win their children need-based college financial aid and scholarships they would not otherwise receive, court records and interviews show. Coming months after the national “Varsity Blues” college admissions scandal, this tactic also appears to…