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Education
  • Call for Action! With commentary by Axis of Logic , Axis of Logic

    Editor’s Note: Hampshire College is among the most prestigious, private, liberal arts colleges in New England, located in historic, Amherst, Massachusetts.  Fifty one years ago, presidents from four distinguished universities in Massachusetts began to “reexamine the assumptions and practices of liberal arts education. In 1965, an alumnus of Amherst College, Harold F. Johnson... » read this article
  • Press Release , Ministry of Higher Education

    June 4, 2008 The International Institute for Higher Education in Latin America and the Caribbean (IESALC Spanish acronym) presented on Tuesday 3, in Colombia, the first Higher Education Map in Latina America and the Caribbean (MESALC Spanish acronym). The International Institute for Higher Education in Latin America and the Caribbean (IESALC, Spanish... » read this article
  • Julie Fry , Workers World

    For most students, borrowing money has become a necessary part of going to college. The average student now graduates with at least $21,000 in debt and it is not at all uncommon for students to graduate with $100,000 in debt or more. At the same time, tuition at private universities... » read this article
  • News Release , Ven Global News (MINCI)

    March 3, 2008 During the launching of Mission Ribas Technic, within the framework of the promotion of the VI Graduation of Integral Bachellors of Mission Ribas, held in Teresa Carreño Theather, the Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez informed that Venezuela will count on 58 new universities. The Venezuelan head of State explained that... » read this article
  • Wiki Report , Wikipedia

    The standard of education in Venezuela is among the highest in the region. Of Venezuelans aged 15 and older, 93.4% can read and write, one of the highest literacy rates in the region. The literacy rate in 2003 was estimated to be 93.8% for males and 93.1% for females. Although... » read this article
  • Steven Gray , Time

      Megan Coulter, a Mascoutah, Ill., eighth-grader, served two after-school detentions last week. Her offense? Hugging two friends and therefore violating the Mascoutah Middle School's ban on public displays of affection. Coulter's case drew dozens of newspaper headlines and landed her on NBC's Today Show. But it also illustrates a... » read this article
  • Erich Fromm , Hart Publishing Company

    1960 - During the eighteenth century, the ideas of freedom, democracy, and self-determination were proclaimed by progressive thinkers; and by the first half of the 1900's these ideas came to fruition in the field of education. The basic principle of such self-determination was the replacement of authority by freedom, to... » read this article
  • Khalid Amayreh , The People's Voice

    Harvard is a one of the most respected universities in the world. It is especially renowned for its academic excellence and sound scholarly traditions. However, Harvard’s good name is being tarnished by the presence on its campus of a certified war criminal who is believed to have been responsible for... » read this article
  • Philippe Meirieu , Le Monde (Original); Truthout (English translation)

    In France, debates concerning education are too often reduced to debates about school. Our history certainly invites that: no other country is built through and around its school system more than ours. And if we don't restore hope in an institution that today has been broadly reduced to a triage... » read this article
  • Cheryl LaBash , Workers World

    In just 45 years a socialist revolution transformed Cuba from an impoverished U.S. colony to an international educational powerhouse. In 1961, Cuban rural illiteracy was 42 percent. In 2006, UNESCO awarded Cuba for its international literacy program. On Dec. 22, 1961, the Cuban Revolution marked the successful end of the... » read this article
  • Jack Blatherwick, PhD , TruthOut

       Teaching answers to standardized tests should not be called "education," especially when problem-solving will be the most important tool for a generation of students destined to inherit the incredible problems we will leave as our legacy.     To repeat the answers we feed is at best, preparing future "patriots" for... » read this article
  • J.M. Peter Rundlet and editorial comment by Les Blough , Media Matters, Think Progress and Axis of Logic

    Editor's Comment: Many, perhaps most parents do not read "Scholastic" - the private corporate publication used in many public schools as a text for teaching our children. The two (2) articles below, published by Media Matters and Think Progress, tell how ABC has teamed up with Scholastic to shape our kids' thinking of the September 11, 2001... » read this article
  • Interview , Socialist Worker Online (US)

    THE INCUMBENT Superintendent of Public Instruction in California was nearly forced into a runoff against SARAH KNOPP, a member of the Green Party and the International Socialist Organization. In the non-partisan election for the state’s top public school official, Knopp won more than 560,000 votes, or 17.2 percent of the... » read this article
  • Robert L. Borosage and Earl Hadley , Tom Paine

    Robert L. Borosage is co-director and Earl Hadley is education program coodinator at the Campaign For America's Future. Confident that the audience at Kansas State University would be packed with presidential supporters, the White House decided to take the president out of his bubble and have him take a few unscripted... » read this article
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World News
  • Petroleum Sullies the Amazon
    "Now the fish are going to disappear," said Luis Umpunchi, an Awajún Indian, one of about 20 people gathered around a broken oil pipeline in the Jayais community, in the northern Peruvian province of Amazonas....
  • U.S. Uses False Taliban Aid Charge to Pressure Iran
    The Barack Obama administration has given new prominence to a Bush administration charge that Iran is providing military training and assistance to the Taliban in Afghanistan, for which no evidence has ever been produced, and...
  • Trans-Sahara Pipeline to send gas to Europe
    Nigeria, Algeria, Niger Seal $10bn Gas Pipeline Deal Three African countries yesterday signed an accord to build a $10 billion trans-Saharan gas pipeline linking vast reserves in Nigeria to Europe. The project would convey gas...
  • US launches major Afghan assault
    US forces have launched a major military operation in southern Afghanistan in the first big push to drive the Taliban out of a key stronghold since Barack Obama became US president. Four thousand marines, backed...
  • DPRK fires fourth short-range missile off east coast
    The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) fired the fourth short-range missile in the day off its east coast on Thursday evening, South Korea's Yonhap News Agency reported.     DPRK fired the fourth missile at...
  • Honduras: U.S. friends carry out a coup
    MILITARY OFFICERS and right-wing forces in Honduras with long ties to the U.S. government organized a coup to topple the democratically elected president at the end of June--and the reaction of the Obama administration was...
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