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The College Admissions Scandal: Graft By Any Other Name
AP Photo/Steven Senne William "Rick" Singer founder of the Edge College & Career Network, departs federal court in Boston on Tuesday, March 12, 2019, after he pleaded guilty to charges in a...
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What? No Harvard?
AP Photo/Charles Krupa Rowers paddle down the Charles River near the campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. C onspicuously absent from the list of colleges implicated in last week’s...
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The Unkept Promises of Higher Education
AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File Rowers paddle along the Charles River past the Harvard College campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged...
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The Myth of Meritocracy
Andrew Milligan/PA Wire via AP Presidential advisor Jared Kushner and wife Ivanka Trump play golf at the Trump International Golf Links course near Aberdeen, Scotland. M ost Americans still cling to...
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The Highlander Center Won’t Let an Arsonist Extinguish Its Flame of Justice
Sammy Solomon/New Market Fire and Rescue Team via APIn 1959, segregationist law enforcement officials in Tennessee raided the Highlander Folk School, a controversial interracial training center for...
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Trump’s NLRB Is Picking a Fight with Graduate Students
Bebeto Matthews/AP PhotoBebeto Matthews/AP Photo Striking teaching assistants protest on the campus of Columbia University in April 2018. Last week, President Trump’s National Labor Relations Board...
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As Consumer Protections Dwindle, Schools Push Financial Literacy
This is a preview of the Summer 2019 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Subscribe here . In early January, with near-unanimous support, New Jersey legislators passed a law mandating financial...
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Will Income-Share Agreements Be the Next Payday Loans?
This week, Indiana’s Uniform Consumer Credit Code will be amended to exempt state higher-education institutions from having to comply with key consumer protections. The change is so subtle that it has...
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The Charter School Primary
agenda_2020.jpg When Bernie Sanders, the Vermont senator running for president, released his wide-ranging education plan in mid-May, most of the media coverage focused on his proposals around charter...
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Deferred Dreams of Brown and Grutter
The Open Mind explores the world of ideas across politics, media, science, technology, and the arts. The American Prospect is re-publishing this conversation. The Trump administration and the...
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