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Militarization, Priorities, and Women

Kavita Ramdas and Sharon Bhagwan-Rolls discuss the militarization of society and how it hurts everyone, but especially women. - GRITtv with Laura Flanders

Relief from Crushing Student Loan Payments

We are proposing to make federal student loans more affordable by limiting a borrower’s payments to 10 percent of the income he or she has left over after covering basic expenses. Here is an example:  The monthly payment for a single borrower earning $30,000 who owes $20,000 in loans would be $115 a month, compared [...]

Wi-Fi Turns Arizona Bus Ride Into a Rolling Study Hall

Morning routines have been like this since the fall, when school officials mounted a mobile Internet router to bus No. 92’s sheet-metal frame, enabling students to surf the Web. The students call it the Internet Bus, and what began as a high-tech experiment has had an old-fashioned — and unexpected — result. Wi-Fi access has [...]

The $555,000 Student-Loan Burden

Unlike other kinds of debt, student loans can be particularly hard to wriggle out of. Homeowners who can’t make their mortgage payments can hand over the keys to their house to their lender. Credit-card and even gambling debts can be discharged in bankruptcy. But ditching a student loan is virtually impossible, especially once a collection [...]

Michigan to Push Teachers into Retirement

Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm wants to push nearly 40,000 veteran teachers into retirement to eliminate their hefty salaries from the state’s 2011 budget. The plan, introduced to state lawmakers last Friday and discussed in her final State of the State speech yesterday, would save an estimated $230 million a year, but it would also leave students with [...]

What makes a great teacher?

If you don’t have the right personality, you’ll suffer in the bearpit of today’s classrooms. In my experience, there are four types of teacher who are effective: the despot, the carer, the charmer, and the rebel. And none of them, in my experience, requires an upper-class degree.
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Fraud U: Toppling a Bogus-Diploma Empire

Bogus degrees are nothing new. Black markets in fake diplomas are known to have existed as far back as 14th-century Europe. Today, so-called diploma mills based in the US sell roughly 200,000 degrees a year to customers around the globe. By some estimates, they sell as many PhDs as are awarded by legitimate American universities. [...]

Michigan’s cannabis college is quite a joint

Med Grow Cannabis College, located in the Detroit suburb of Southfield, is set to graduate its first class of students later this month. Its co-founder and president, Nick Tennant, the 24-year-old son of a General Motors Corp. employee, said he sees a significant opportunity to teach standards and safety in an industry that can eventually [...]

Constraining America’s Brightest

As jobs become increasingly scarce, more and more college graduates are working for free, at internships, which is great for employers but something of a handicap for a young man or woman who has to pay for food or a place to live.
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These recent graduates have done everything society told them to do. They’ve worked [...]

What Recession? As the Economy Crashed Around Them, 400 Richest Americans Lined Their Pockets with $30 Billion

So let’s imagine that the rest of their wealth, about $1.53 trillion, were available for the public good.
What does $1.53 trillion buy?
It’s more than enough to insure the uninsured for the next twenty years or more.
It’s more than enough to create a Manhattan Project to solve global warming by developing renewable energy and a green, [...]