Pedagogy of the Depressed
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The subtle ways colleges discriminate against poor students, explained in a cartoon - Vox
We stunt upward mobility and make college a finishing school for the affluent.<p>A few years ago, hundreds of college administrators received a survey in the mail. It was designed to figure out what they believed it takes to succeed in college.<p>The survey listed 12 skills that colleges generally expect …
EducationWhy Teachers Need Their Freedom
Educators must remain engaged and autonomous in order to do their jobs well and avoid burnout.<p>My co-teacher and I met in the parking lot before school and stared into my car trunk at the costumes and props we had gathered over the weekend. We were giddy with excitement and nervous because neither …
TeachingSchool Supply Lists Have Gotten Ridiculously Long and Expensive. Here’s Why.
A schoolteacher shops for back-to-school supplies.Getty Images If you’re not a parent, you may remember shopping for school supplies as an enjoyably …
EducationWhy School Still Starts After Labor Day in Michigan
The calendar is designed to bolster the economy—but some worry it hurts kids.<p>For Tracy Horodyski, a teacher in the Kenowa Hills school district in Michigan, a new district schedule has her returning to the classroom on Monday, August 28—her first pre-Labor Day start in more than a decade. But …
EducationWhy Universities Are Phasing Out Luxury Dorms
In recent decades higher-education institutions have tried to lure students with extravagant amenities, but some are finding that these attempts can actually threaten enrollment and retention.<p>When I was a college freshman in the early 1990s, I lived in a dorm that was as sterile as a hospital room, …
EducationWhy Suburban Schools Are Inflating Kids' Grades
Middle-class high-schoolers aren’t getting any smarter, but their GPAs are rising—and that’s pushing their poor peers further behind.<p>PITTSBURGH—Monet Spencer remembers traveling to affluent suburban high schools when she was a member of the marching band at Brashear High School in this city’s …
EducationOne University President's Candid Take On The Future Of Higher Ed
Mitch Daniels went from running the state of Indiana, as its two-term Republican governor, to running its top flight public university, Purdue University, based in West Lafayette.<p>Since Daniels began his tenure in 2013, Purdue has made plenty of headlines. First, the school partnered with Gallup on …
EducationThe Unexpected Value of the Liberal Arts
First-generation students are finding personal and professional fulfillment in the humanities and social sciences.<p>Growing up in Southern California, Mai-Ling Garcia’s grades were ragged; her long-term plans nonexistent. At age 20, she was living with her in-laws halfway between Los Angeles and the …
EducationWisconsin Republicans Consider Cracking Down on Campus Protests
The Badger State is debating a law that would suspend or expel students who shut down speakers or interfere with their free expression. Does it go too far?<p>The national controversy surrounding attempts to shut down controversial speakers on college campuses entered a new phase this week, with the …
EducationThe Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan
If a songwriter can win the Nobel Prize for literature, can CliffsNotes be art? During his official lecture recorded on June 4, laureate Bob Dylan …
LiteratureTricks You Use To Make Your Paper Longer - Tricks For Reaching Your Page Count
When you're writing a school paper and you've been researching and typing for what feels like ages but you <i>still</i> haven't reached your teacher's …
The New Diploma Mills
<i>This is the first part of the Big Shortcut, an eight-part series exploring the exponential rise in online learning for high school students who have</i> …
EducationTrump’s Education Budget Takes Aim at the Working Class
The president wants to cut funding for programs such as career and technical education and redirect that money toward school choice.<p><i>Updated on May 23, 2017</i><p>Many of the spending goals outlined in Donald Trump’s proposed education budget reflect his campaign rhetoric. The president, who has long …
EducationBetsy DeVos’ Commencement Speech at a Historically Black College Was Drowned Out by Booing
It takes a lot to be one of the most controversial members of the Trump administration, but Betsy DeVos has done it. The inexperienced education …
EducationThe Armed Campus in the Anxiety Age
Campus-carry laws add unnecessary worry to communities already overwhelmed by unease.<p>ATLANTA, Ga.—A while back, a student at Georgia Tech, where I teach, showed me a series of anonymized “threats” that students in a notoriously difficult class of mine had posted in an online discussion forum. I’d …
Higher EducationU of Houston Faculty Senate suggests changes to teaching under campus carry
Faculty members opposed to Texas's new campus concealed carry law have argued that it will chill academic freedom and free speech. A set of …
The Real Chaos of Campus Gun Laws
New legislation in Georgia shows ambiguous campus-carry laws might create a greater burden than the guns themselves.<p>ATLANTA—Last week, Georgia Governor Nathan Deal signed a bill that will allow Georgia weapons permit holders over 21 years of age to carry concealed firearms in most parts of the …
Gun ControlThe New Intellectuals
Political wars on college campuses aren’t really about free speech. They’re about what it means to be a student.<p>The political wars on today’s college campuses are being quickly reduced to a small number of unsatisfying explanations. Many of these are injurious and insulting to the students who …
EducationThe Destructiveness of Call-Out Culture on Campus
Reflections from undergraduates of the social media era<p>Last month, hoping to better understand how digital communications affects life on campus, I posed this question: “Were College Students Better Off Before Social Media?”<p>One undergraduate responded that what he likes best about the …
Social MediaWords Which by Their Very Utterance Inflict Injury
College students urging the punishment of speech that “wounds” risk silencing the causes they support.<p>College students seeking to suppress or punish speech in their communities are the latest iteration of a longer tradition in American life than many of their critics acknowledge. That’s true even …
CensorshipBetsy DeVos Is Wasting No Time Screwing Over Students Who Borrow Money for College
Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos has been sending some chilling signals lately about how she plans to deal with America’s $1.3 trillion student …
Betsy DeVosWere College Students Better Off Before Social Media?
Ten questions for campus observers about the costs of the world that Silicon Valley built<p>Fifteen years ago, when I graduated from Pomona College, there were landlines in the dorm rooms, a paper directory with everyone’s number, and a thriving culture of friendly prank calls. Almost no one used …
Higher EducationThe Closing of the Republican Mind on For-Profit Colleges
In working to loosen proprietary-college regulation, contemporary politicians break decades of GOP precedent.<p>In Congress, on the presidential campaign trail, and in the editorial pages of <i>The Wall Street Journal</i>, Republicans have been unified in the belief that the Obama administration badly …
Higher EducationWhy Banning Laura Kipnis Would Betray Wellesley's Academic Mission
Six professors at the college insist that campus speakers like the feminist intellectual will cause students “damage” or “injury.”<p>This week at Wellesley College, six professors who serve on the Commission on Race, Ethnicity, and Equity, a committee at the highly selective liberal arts school, sent …
EducationMeasuring College (Un)affordability
As many as 95 percent of schools are out of reach for low-income students.<p>College is unaffordable for a lot of families. That’s widely acknowledged across party lines. But a new report shows that as many as 95 percent of colleges are completely unaffordable—and thus unavailable—for huge swaths of …
EducationDeconstructing the 'Liberal Campus' Cliche
Uniformly labeling higher education as a community of hypersensitive, radical leftists is not only a false portrayal, but also undermines intellectualism.<p>Are American universities now spaces where democratic free expression is in decline, where insecurity, fear, and an obsessive, self-preening …
Higher EducationA Wisconsin Legislator Models Political Correctness for Students
Instead of selectively attacking views they find objectionable, students, administrations, and elected officials could try defending the principle of free speech.<p>When Wisconsin lawmaker Steve Nass was an undergraduate in his state’s public university system during the late 1970s, he reportedly got …
EducationWhy Would a Poor Kid Want to Work in Academia?
My colleague Ed wrote a piece last week examining the relative dearth of science professors who are not Asian or white (“Science’s Minority Talent Pool Is Growing—but Draining Away”). He quoted many experts, primarily Kenneth Gibbs Jr., an immunologist and science-policy expert at the National …
EducationAmerica's Educational Divide Put Trump in the White House
Even controlling for race and income, the concentration of college degrees was the strongest indicator of whether a county would back the Republican.<p>By now, you’ve heard about the great American divide that ushered Donald Trump into office. It’s probably been pitched as a matter of money and …
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