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Here’s Exactly How Much the Government Would Have to Spend to Make Public College Tuition-Free

Mister President, we thank you for addressing the need to expand college opportunities. As you noted, currently, inequity and inequality are replete. "[T]he United States still has a long way to go to open the door to college for low-income Americans….We have to make sure there are [...]

Here’s Exactly How Much the Government Would Have to Spend to Make Public College Tuition-Free2016-11-29T17:38:22-05:00

Americans Who Say “College Isn’t For Everyone” Never Mean Their Own Kids

Photograph; Teachers need to be careful about which students they steer toward vocational school. AP Photo/Brendan Hoffman By Angela Romans | Originally Published at Quartz. December 9, 2013 My brother, a businessman who went to Brown and MIT, and I have a running dinnertime argument. It goes [...]

Americans Who Say “College Isn’t For Everyone” Never Mean Their Own Kids2016-11-29T17:38:28-05:00

SAT Results For 2013 Show Low Rates of College Preparedness

Perhaps the story behind the story is what do the results of the Scholastic Assessment Test or any test mean? The history of the name might shed some light. What was originally the "Scholastic Aptitude Test" morphed into its newer role, a standardized means to score college [...]

SAT Results For 2013 Show Low Rates of College Preparedness2016-11-29T17:38:40-05:00

A Pass Fail Grade; The Minimum Wage

It begins at birth, or perhaps at conception. Some babies are conceived to parents of means. Their Moms have access to adequate health care. Prenatal preventative measures to ward off ill-health are provided. During delivery, the parents receive attention, as does the child receives. Day-care, kindergarten, and [...]

A Pass Fail Grade; The Minimum Wage2016-11-29T17:38:46-05:00

A Lack of Consequences for Sexual Assault

Indiana University freshman Margaux J. unleashed these fiery words in May 2006 after a campus judicial proceeding on her allegations of rape. It wasn’t that the two administrators running the proceeding panel didn’t believe her. In fact, they did. The panel found the [...]

A Lack of Consequences for Sexual Assault2016-11-29T17:39:04-05:00
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