EDUCATION (quality, privatization, content) View front page articles all submitted articles All articles are submitted by smart activists like you. Go here to contribute:  03-09-2010 Saturday August 27, 2005 Comments The CIA's Campus Spies: Exposing the Pat Roberts Intelligence Scholars Program United States | CounterPunch [0] Tuesday August 23, 2005 Comments Empty Calories, Empty Promises: The American Beverage Association's new school beverage policy a no more than a PR stunt United States | Common Dreams [0] Wednesday July 6, 2005 Comments Families hiring consultants to get their kids into college, "Some people think we are preying on the anxiety of people who already are overly anxious about this competitive process that has so much social status attached to it..." United States | Richmond Times Dispatch [0] Tuesday July 5, 2005 Comments Yet another way that schools are selling out to the corporate dollar -- George Mason High's football field now going by "Moore Cadillac" Stadium. United States | Richmond Times Dispatch [0] Monday July 4, 2005 Comments When colleges are for-profit they tend to act unethically and often illegally, not to mentioned, like, totally suck. United States | New Standard [0] Sunday June 26, 2005 Comments Good news: with the Taliban gone, girls are once again allowed to get an education. Bad news: "over 40 girls schools have been bombed, set on fire, or violently attacked in Afghanistan since 2001." Afghanistan | Feminist Majority Foundation [0] Sunday June 19, 2005 Comments Parents uniting to keep military recruiters from high schoolers United States | CNN [0] Monday June 13, 2005 Comments The essential political responsibilities of college teachers Global | Z Communications [0] Thursday June 2, 2005 Comments If you're on a waiting list for college you better hope you're not poor. United States | Los Angeles Times [0] Sunday May 29, 2005 Comments The Constitution says Congress can’t tell schools what to teach. But that’s no longer the case for at least one topic — the Constitution itself. United States | MSNBC [0] Friday May 27, 2005 Comments High school rejects military recruiters on campus because they unfairly target poor inner-city teens, "We want education to be the funding priority of the United States government, not the occupation of a sovereign nation." United States | Reuters AlertNet [0] Thursday April 21, 2005 Comments Utah passes a law that orders state officials to ignore provisions in Bush's No Child Left Behind since they don't have any money for it anyway. United States | New York Times [0] Wednesday April 13, 2005 Comments THE PLAN: 1. Reduce public school budgets, thereby reducing quality. 2. Parents send kids to charter schools. 3. Schools get less money for less students. 4. More students go to charter schools. 5. Education is privatized and profitable. United States | Lawrence Journal-World [0] Saturday April 9, 2005 Comments Connecticut suing the federal government for passing "No Child Left Behind" requiring expensive tests but not giving them any money to pay for it. United States | New York Times [0] Greed Aid: Big banks do billions in student loans—and that means less money for you United States | Village Voice [0] Thursday April 7, 2005 Comments Struggling students don't need lessons about moral values from the president -- they need financial aid. United States | TomPaine.com [0] Monday March 28, 2005 Comments FIRE's Guides to Student Rights on Campus United States | Foundation for Individual Rights in Education [0] Monday March 21, 2005 Comments Harvard President gets a big ol' "Lack of Confidence" United States | Feminist Majority Foundation [0] Friday March 18, 2005 Comments Needed in class: a few good men. Lowly status, poor pay, and fear of lawsuits are pushing the numbers of male teachers in US classrooms to an all-time low. United States | Christian Science Monitor [0] Friday March 11, 2005 Comments First-Grader's mom told by administrator, "either you go inside my office and spank him, or I am suspending him from school for a day." United States | KIRO [0] Thursday March 10, 2005 Comments Who's The Terrorist? by Ward Churchill United States | Z Communications [0] The major battleground of the conservative's "culture war" is now strongly focused on colleges and universities campuses. United States | AgapePress.Org [0] Wednesday March 9, 2005 Comments "We need more teachers beating people about the face and head, especially on the derriere." United States | Media Matters for America [0] Tuesday March 8, 2005 Comments Professor's test asks, "Why is President Bush a war criminal?" Student responds with why Saddam Hussein is a war criminal and gets an F. Actually, none of that really happened but let's use it anyway to "prove" that colleges are too liberal. United States | Media Matters for America [0] Women and minorities at Ivy League schools have made little progress breaking into the tenure track faculty ranks, and are instead becoming a larger part of the growing group of highly qualified but non tenure track faculty and staff. United States | Ms. Magazine [0] Monday March 7, 2005 Comments National Narcissism and the Racist, Neo-McCarthyite Assault on Ward Churchill United States | Z Communications [0] Tuesday March 1, 2005 Comments Georgia parents sue for vouchers rather than spending their energy fighting for adequate public education United States | Heartland Institute [0] Wednesday February 23, 2005 Comments Student says professor failed him for "pro-American" paper. Professor's completely different take on it doesn't really matter in the Republican war on education. United States | Media Matters for America [0] Sunday February 20, 2005 Comments The Justice of Roosting Chickens: Ward Churchill Speaks United States | Democracy Now! [0] Friday February 18, 2005 Comments The war on open-minded education has begun. Who's next? United States | Campus Report Online [0]