Hackers school next generation at DEFCON Kids
defconkids.org AFP/Raw Story SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) – DEFCON hackers will share their skills with the next generation at a first-ever children’s version of the infamous…
Education
College is a waste of time
CNN Editor’s note: Dale J. Stephens is a 19-year-old entrepreneur leading UnCollege, a social movement supporting self-directed higher education and building RadMatter, a platform to…
The Next Bubble Is About to Burst: College Grads Face Dwindling Jobs and Mounting Loans
Today’s graduates face miserable job prospects, and experts say the student loan crisis could be worse than the credit card or housing bubbles. Sarah Jaffe…
18 Signs That Life In U.S. Public Schools Is Now Essentially Equivalent To Life In U.S. Prisons
The American Dream In the United States today, our public schools are not very good at educating our students, but they sure are great training…
Student Loan Debt, Reframed
Wiki Image Inside Higher Ed WASHINGTON — Much of the discussion about college student debt revolves around the 15 percent of borrowers who default on…
Do Parents’ Rights End at the Schoolhouse Gate?
“There is no fundamental right of parents to be the exclusive provider of information regarding sexual matters to their children, either independent of their right…
‘Zero Tolerance’ in America’s schools undermines respect for the law
Wiki Image Bryan Walsh The Heritage Foundation “Zero tolerance” policies continue to result in injustices to our nation’s public school students. In one of the…
College Conspiracy (full-length video)
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New Yorkers under 30 plan to flee city, says new poll; cite high taxes, few jobs as reasons
Wiki Commons Kenneth Lovett NY Daily News ALBANY – Escape from New York is not just a movie – it’s also a state of mind….
Bad Education: College Debt No Longer Economical
Wikimedia image Malcolm Harris N+1 Magazine The Project On Student Debt estimates that the average college senior in 2009 graduated with $24,000 in outstanding loans….
Newly Graduated And Drowning In Six Figures Of Student Loan Debt
College Graduates Wikimedia Image Amanda M. Fairbanks Huffington Post NEW YORK — Hardly a day goes by where Ashley Angello doesn’t fret about her student…
US risks creating uneducated ‘underclass’: study
© AFP/File Hector Mata AFP WASHINGTON (AFP) – The United States will create a new Hispanic underclass unless it improves immigrant children’s access to education,…
Homeless Mom Charged With Stealing $16,000 in Education By Lying About Son’s Address for School
Robin Marty Care2 A homeless mother in Connecticut has been charged with theft of “education expenses” totaling nearly $16,000 after it was discovered that she…
India, and the Economic Folly of a College Degree
Wikimedia Commons image John Tamny Forbes “…if an equal proportion of people were educated at the public expence, the competition would soon be so great,…