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Opinion: Colleges Flunk the Civic Engagement Test
By not in system - AOL NewsWe live in consequential times. And in the past few weeks, we have been reminded of the precious gift of political dissent. Here at home, we see it in Madison, Wis., where a budget crisis has forced a public debate on the merits of both fiscal discipline and collective bargaining. In the Middle East, we see lacking what we as Americans take for granted every day: effective mechanisms for the peaceful transfer of power from one faction to another. Whether it's Egypt last week, Libya this week or somewhere else next week, the common denominator is that many nations don't afford their citizens ...
Wisconsin Protests: Far From the Madison Crowd
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Texas Group Offers Scholarships to White Men Only
By Lauren Frayer - AOL NewsA new nonprofit group in Texas is offering college scholarships to a demographic it says has fewer scholarship options than other groups: white men. The group, called the Former Majority Association for Equality, was started by Colby Bohannon, a student at Texas State University. He's an Iraq War veteran who decided to return to school and said he had trouble finding college scholarships for which he qualified. He found many programs willing to grant money to female or minority students, but not white males like himself. "I felt excluded," Bohannon told The Austin American-Statesman. "If ...
Inner-City School Sending Entire Senior Class to College -- Again [VIDEO]
By not in system - AOL NewsThe fat acceptance envelopes keep arriving for students at Chicago's Urban Prep charter school. For the second year in a row, the entire graduating class has been accepted at a four-year college. The senior class of 104 young men has been admitted to 103 colleges or universities so far, and the high school is hoping for at least one invitation to an Ivy League school. Urban Prep Academy is the nation's first all-male public charter high school. It is composed entirely of African-American students. The students at the school's Englewood campus were presented with striped ties Wednesday to ...
State of the Union: What the . . . ?
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Opinion: Do We Really Need More College Grads?
By Matthew Biberman - AOL NewsIn his State of the Union address, President Barack Obama declared that, when it comes to the business of higher education, America remains the country to beat. "We are home to the world's best colleges and universities," he said, "where more students come to study than any other place on Earth." Yet later in that very same speech, Obama painted a different picture when he came to speak of the American student. "America," he told us, "has fallen to ninth in the proportion of young people with a college degree." But Obama shared this bad news with us for a reason. Not surprisingly, it turns ...
Opinion: College Graduation Rates -- What You Don't Know Can Hurt
By not in system - AOL NewsThe college admissions season is in full swing, and around the country high school seniors and their parents are actively discussing their college options for next year, filling out financial aid paperwork, and editing and re-editing college essays. For these students and their families, the end goal is a college degree, which they know is a key to economic success. Unfortunately, not all colleges are created equal when it comes to getting their students over the finish line. Institutions that admit similar students often have widely different graduation rates, and far too many colleges fail ...
Opinion: News Flash -- Academia Doesn't Lean Left
By Matthew Biberman - AOL NewsIn my last opinion piece for AOL News ("Educators Can Help Prevent Future Giffords Tragedies," Jan. 10), I argued that, in the wake of the Tucson massacre, American educators need to familiarize themselves with the signs of psychosis and make a commitment to intervene when required. Most readers seemed eager to interpret what I had written as marching orders coming from a member of the American left, politically speaking. This assumption clearly followed from the fact that I teach at an American university, and for at least the past three decades, conservative pundits have presented academics ...
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