The High Cost of the Home Team The High Cost of the Home Team
Big-money athletics cannot help but sabotage what our colleges and universities are for: instruction and research.
Jan 18, 2007 / Column / Nicholas von Hoffman
Katrina’s Last Victims? Katrina’s Last Victims?
The New Orleans school system, re-created in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, is beginning to look like something designed by FEMA.
Dec 14, 2006 / Feature / Lisa Delpit and Charles M. Payne
College Presidents High on the Hog College Presidents High on the Hog
College presidents are living in baronial splendor, some with salaries, benefits and perks of $1 million or more. And you wonder why the cost of tuition is so high?
Oct 31, 2006 / Column / Nicholas von Hoffman
Playing Politics at School Playing Politics at School
Casting himself as tough on school crime as election day nears, Kentucky Republican Representative Geoff Davis is pushing a measure that puts the constitutional right of students a...
Oct 24, 2006 / Feature / Hasdai Westbrook
Leave No Tax Cheat Behind Leave No Tax Cheat Behind
If President Bush and the Republican Congress would close the loopholes on tax cheats--especially the superrich--there would be ample money to improve the nation's public schools.
Oct 10, 2006 / Feature / John C. Fager
Doing Lunch Doing Lunch
Ann Cooper, gourmet chef turned healthy school food advocate, talks about becoming a "lunch lady" and what it takes to reform our children's cafeterias.
Aug 27, 2006 / Feature / Anna Lappé
Edible NOLA Edible NOLA
A new charter school is embracing "eco-gastronomy"--a holistic curriculum based around food--hoping "to renew New Orleans one okra plant and one child at a time."
Aug 24, 2006 / Feature / Randy Fertel
Trump U. Trump U.
Why go to a real college? Enroll in Donald Trump's virtual university and you'll learn all you need to know for $29 or your money back!
Jul 21, 2006 / Feature / Nicholas von Hoffman
Burning Cole Burning Cole
Politics trumped academic integrity when a neocon network torpedoed the appointment of Mideast scholar and blogger Juan Cole to a faculty position at Yale.
Jun 16, 2006 / Philip Weiss
Rebels With a Cause Rebels With a Cause
A new generation of student activists is flexing its muscles, rolling back employment rules in France, demanding education reform in Chile and fighting for immigrant rights in the ...
Jun 15, 2006 / Column / Gary Younge