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累计：575 篇（自 2007-09-20 起）

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Refund the DC OSP

last year, congress defunded the historic dc opportunity scholarship program, which offered scholarships for kids in underperforming public schools to attend private schools. i've met families in the program, i've visited schools participating in the program, and i've seen how transformative the scholarships have been for kids and their parents--for many... (317 天前)

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More cooked law school books

it's not just loyola that's cooking law school transcripts in hopes of giving students a leg up on the job market. this morning the new york times reports that in the past two years, at least ten schools have done the same. they include georgetown, nyu, tulane, and golden gate university. law schools seem to view higher grades as one way to rescue thei... (317 天前)

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Law school scam

for a long time, the conventional wisdom among humanities majors has been this: law school is the way to go if you want a safe, secure, flexible, and lucrative way to keep reading and writing for a living. i can't count how many times i sat with english majors who were wrestling with what to do with their lives, who saw themselves as having a choice betw... (317 天前)

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Learning to share

right now the aaup is calling for greater faculty involvement in shared governance, and so are prominent members of the professoriate--among them aaup president and university of illinois english professor cary nelson, whose new book, no university is an island, makes the case for both stronger faculty unions and more faculty power. the idea is that ther... (317 天前)

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UC-Irvine gets it right

too often, there are problems with follow through when universities respond to scandalously bad behavior on campus. when the media pressure gets intense, they say they'll look into it, buy themselves some time ... and then quietly allow matters to drop when media attention and general public furor die down.i confess, i was starting to suspect that somet... (317 天前)

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Much ado?

inside higher ed picks up the cry wolf scandal, and asks whether those who are critical of the cry wolf project are themselves crying wolf. i'm glad to see the story make it into the higher ed news, but disappointed by the way it's written: the article reproduces the partisan framework of the cry wolf project itself, describing the issues entirely in ter... (317 天前)

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How's your bubble?

at naked law, eight reasons why the college tuition bubble is about to burst:1) tuition is, and has been, increasing at double the rate of inflationon average, college tuition increases at around 8 percent per year, which means the cost of college doubles every nine years. because colleges know that students will simply borrow more money to cover tuit... (317 天前)

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