Sanders and Warren Have Very Different Plans to Fix Student Debt
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) holds a news conference to discuss his college affordability legislation in Washington on Monday June 24, 2019.Caroline Brehman/CQ Roll Call via AP Bernie Sanders just took his long-running war against the high cost of college to a whole new level: He’s introducing a bill to cancel all $1.6 trillion outstanding student…
How Teach for America Evolved Into an Arm of the Charter School Movement
erhui1979/Getty This story was originally published by ProPublica. When the Walton Family Foundation announced in 2013 that it was donating $20 million to Teach For America to recruit and train nearly 4,000 teachers for low-income schools, its press release did not reveal the unusual terms for the grant. Documents obtained by ProPublica show that the foundation,…
Biden Won’t Say If He Still Stands By His Crime Bill’s Ban on Pell Grants for Prisoners
Michael Dwyer/AP Growing up in South Philadelphia, Carl Upchurch dropped out of elementary school and was first locked up for stealing a bike when he was nine. By 13, he was involved with gangs; in his twenties, he was sent to prison for armed robbery. During his 10-year sentence, Upchurch returned to his education, earning…
Dream Big, Reach for the Stars, and Don’t You Dare Mention Climate Change
Marty Caivano/Digital First Media/Boulder Daily Camera/Getty This story was originally published by the Guardian and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Schools and colleges across the US have been accused of censoring students who have attempted to use their graduation speeches to speak out on the unfolding climate crisis. A youth-led movement called Class of 0000 is…
We Need to Bury the Columbine Shooters
Mother Jones illustration; Getty Two of the future shooters were just infants and a third wasn’t even born yet when Columbine happened. But by the time they each attacked their schools last year, all three young men had drawn inspiration from the pair who committed suicidal mass murder at their Colorado high school on April…
It’s Hard Enough for Student Sexual Assault Survivors. Missouri Lawmakers Are Trying to Make It Even Worse.
The University of Missouri campusStephen Emlund/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. College students deciding whether to report sexual assault or harassment to their universities already face a slew of barriers. There’s the shame, embarrassment, and fear of going through an emotionally difficult misconduct process. There’s the panic that even…