With MOOCs, the future is clearly what happened to the French Department at Southeastern Louisiana University. Fire all the tenure track professors, replace them with adjuncts, and continue offering the minor (or major as the case may be). Dare the professors to do something about...
Author: Erik Loomis
Poor Republicans are all sad that sequestration actually affects their districts. In the same phenomenon Scott describes below with Rob Portman now caring about gay marriage because it affects his.
The end of an era in Boston, as school busing is officially ended. It's true that busing didn't really work very well. It was a clunky approach to a horrible.
In case anyone thinks that companies aren't very excited about the evisceration of unions and labor regulations so that they can go back to pre-1935 ways of dealing with workers, let's take a quick look at Chrysler. The recently bailed out auto company has instituted...
As you may remember, last summer, the Board of Visitors at the University of Virginia attempted to push out UVA President Teresa Sullivan, basically because the corporate hacks on the.
The labor historian Cindy Hahamovitch on the already terrible agricultural guestworker program that agricultural interests want to deregulate even more in a new immigration bill. The guestworker program continued but.
The Center for Investigative Reporting has an outstanding animation up about fish politics and who controls the fisheries. Essentially, the catch shares system for regulating fisheries has turned into creating state-sponsored monopolies over the fishing grounds. It doesn't have to be that way. A few...
Erick Erickson for this lovely tweet: That lefties are accusing the new pope of handing over lefties to the right wing junta for execution makes me adore the new pope..
Among the many problems with decentralized charter school systems is that students end up being taught anything that the crazy people who often run them want. Such is the case.
The education capitalists have a great plan. We starve the universities by reducing their state funding so much that students can't easily graduate in 4 years. Then we get our lackeys in the state legislature to pass a law forcing schools to accept online classes...
Why actually pay conservative hacks to write propaganda for your anti-democratic government. All you have to do is ask and they are evidently happy to do so for free. As.
And so begins the fourth generation: George P. Bush, the eldest son of former Florida governor Jeb Bush and nephew of former president George W. Bush, is running for Texas.