Writing WrongsThe Aging Student Debtors of Americaverified_publisherThe New Yorker - Eleni SchirmerIn an era of declining wages and rising debt, Americans are not aging out of their student loans—they are aging into them. On a warm October evening, in 1932, Franklin Delano Roosevelt stood in a baseball field in Pittsburgh, delivering an impassioned speech about passion’s improbable subject: the …
Writing WrongsThe Longer The Pandemic Lasts, The Greater Need for Change In Higher EdForbes - Jeffrey SelingoIf you have traveled by air in recent weeks, you know airline delays and cancellations have spiked because of a confluence of bad weather and crew shortages caused by the Omicron surge. During a business trip of my own last week that was full of multiple delays, two missed connections, and five-plus …
Writing WrongsLiz Warren: Now’s the Time To Raise Hell on Student Debt CancellationTeen Vogue - Jacqui Germain“Now is the time,” the senator tells Teen Vogue. This story is published as part of Teen Vogue’s 2022 Economic Security Project fellowship. On the eve of the one-year anniversary of his inauguration, President Biden held a two-hour-long press conference. The final reporter to speak asked a simple …
Writing WrongsCan pay raises help solve a teacher shortage? States hope so.The 19th - Nadra NittleLegislators in at least 15 states, including Kentucky, Missouri, New Mexico and Colorado, have in 2021 either proposed raising teacher pay or already …
Writing WrongsU.S. education secretary calls for an end to colleges withholding transcriptsThe Hechinger Report - by Kirk CarapezzaWithholding transcripts from students who owe their colleges money drives inequitable outcomes, U.S. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said, marking …
Writing WrongsWhere are the students? For a second straight year, school enrollment is droppingverified_publisherNPR - Anya Kamenetz, Cory Turner , Mansee KhuranaThe troubling enrollment losses that school districts reported last year have in many places continued this fall, as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to disrupt public education across the country, an NPR investigation has found. We compiled the latest headcount data directly from more than 600 …