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With Lobbying Blitz, For-Profit Colleges Diluted New Rules

Posted on December 10, 2011 by | Comments Off on With Lobbying Blitz, For-Profit Colleges Diluted New Rules

The New York Times: With Lobbying Blitz, For-Profit Colleges Diluted New Rules

Last year, the Obama administration vowed to stop for-profit colleges from luring students with false promises. In an opening volley that shook the $30 billion industry, officials proposed new restrictions to cut off the huge flow of federal aid to unfit programs.
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But after a ferocious response that administration officials called one of the most intense they had seen, the Education Department produced a much-weakened final plan that almost certainly will have far less impact as it goes into effect next year.

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Obama Admin Connected to Anti-Teacher Union Ads?

Posted on May 20, 2010 by | Comments Off on Obama Admin Connected to Anti-Teacher Union Ads?

Education Notes Online: Obama Admin Connected to Anti-Teacher Union Ads?

I got a call from a retired teacher yesterday asking for ICE. He said he had done some research on the anti-UFT ads and traced them to some Obama administration operatives. Here is the email he sent me as a follow-up.

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Faculty-Union Allies, Hopeful About Obama’s Labor Board, Hear From Its Leader

Posted on April 13, 2010 by | Comments Off on Faculty-Union Allies, Hopeful About Obama’s Labor Board, Hear From Its Leader

The Chronicle: Faculty-Union Allies, Hopeful About Obama’s Labor Board, Hear From Its Leader

It’s only a matter of time before the National Labor Relations Board is faced with a challenge to a 2004 ruling that says graduate students at private institutions aren’t employees and therefore don’t have bargaining rights, its leader told attendees at a labor conference here on Monday.

“This is not an issue that we’ll bring up, but I have heard there are cases out there in the works,” said Wilma B. Liebman, the opening speaker at the conference, held at the City University of New York’s Baruch College.

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Obama’s Efforts to Improve Teachers’ Training Stir Old Debates

Posted on February 17, 2010 by | Comments Off on Obama’s Efforts to Improve Teachers’ Training Stir Old Debates

The Chronicle: Obama’s Efforts to Improve Teachers’ Training Stir Old Debates

At Arizona State University, education majors are studying less education than they used to.

Students in the college of education are taking more courses in the subjects they intend to teach. The law-school dean is writing a civics curriculum for aspiring elementary-school teachers; university scientists have created a science program. It’s a universitywide effort to make teacher training more rigorous and effective, one financed in part by a new $33.8-million grant

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Catching Up to Canada

Posted on November 6, 2009 by | Comments Off on Catching Up to Canada

Inside Higher Ed: Catching Up to Canada

VANCOUVER, B.C. — Caveats about the data aside – and there are plenty, admittedly – the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s heavily used rankings on countries’ college outcomes place Canada at the top of the list for the proportion of citizens with a postsecondary credential.

So when President Obama, in a speech to Congress in February, set a goal of having the United States get back to the top of that ranking by 2020, “that means that you’re trying to bump us off,” Noel Baldwin, a policy and research officer at the Canada Millennium Scholarship Fund, told a group of mostly American researchers during the annual meeting of the Association for the Study of Higher Education.

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Moyers and the crisis of organized labor

Posted on September 17, 2009 by | Comments Off on Moyers and the crisis of organized labor

Bill Fletcher and Michael Zweig are scheduled to appear on the Bill Moyers Journal on PBS stations this weekend in a conversation about the crisis facing organized labor, and its relationship to the Obama administration and the broader working class. Check local listings for the times of broadcast in your area. In NYC, the program airs on Channel 13 Friday September 18 at 9 p.m. and is rebroadcast Sunday September 20 at 7 p.m. It will also be available on the Bill Moyers Journal pages of pbs.org.

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Obama and Duncan be warned, teachers’ unions can strike against Democrats too

Posted on July 27, 2009 by | Comments Off on Obama and Duncan be warned, teachers’ unions can strike against Democrats too

examiner.com: Obama and Duncan be warned, teachers’ unions can strike against Democrats too

President Obama has put non-unionized charter schools that cream some of the best kids from neighborhood schools at the top of his education agenda.

He has celebrated the leadership of D.C. schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee, who has fired 1000 educators and farmed kids out to charter schools.

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AAUP Backs Notre Dame in Commencement Controversy

Posted on April 21, 2009 by | Comments Off on AAUP Backs Notre Dame in Commencement Controversy

Inside Higher Ed: AAUP Backs Notre Dame in Commencement Controversy

The Indiana Conference of the American Association of University Professors has weighed in on the controversy surrounding President Obama’s upcoming commencement speech at the University of Notre Dame, which some Roman Catholics oppose due to the president’s support for abortion rights. In its statement, the AAUP chapter expresses support for Notre Dame’s president, the Rev. John I. Jenkins, for standing by the invitation, and expresses concern about “the efforts of external groups to prevent President Obama or any other invited guest from speaking on campus. … Notre Dame has a worthy tradition of inviting new presidents to speak at commencement even though none agree with all aspects of Catholic dogma. To disinvite a commencement speaker over public policy disagreements is an anathema to open discourse.” President Obama will be the ninth U.S. president to be awarded an honorary degree at Notre Dame, and the sixth to be commencement speaker.

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Obama Must Tread Fine Line on Scholars Barred From the U.S. for Their Views

Posted on March 20, 2009 by | Comments Off on Obama Must Tread Fine Line on Scholars Barred From the U.S. for Their Views

The Chronicle: Obama Must Tread Fine Line on Scholars Barred From the U.S. for Their Views

Imagine a world where people can say whatever they want but are forced to wear earplugs at all times. What value would free speech have? The First Amendment does not just protect our right to express ideas; it protects our right to take them in. Its whole point is to ensure access to the thoughts of others, based on a belief that a successful democracy requires an informed citizenry and open debate.

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