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Commentary Higher Education

How Gutting the U.S. Department of Education Would Hurt Students and Their Families

February 12, 2025 — Kings Floyd, Peter Granville, Chantal Hinds and Halley Potter
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NEW YORK, NY - MARCH 26: Construction workers build a new tower on March 26, 2020 in New York City. Some construction workers building luxury condominiums are being forced to work in the city by their companies, while across the country schools, businesses and places of work have either been shut down or are restricting hours of operation as health officials try to slow the spread of COVID-19. (Photo by Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Getty Images)
Commentary Economics

How a Green Stimulus Would Lift Up Workers and Communities and Rebuild Our Infrastructure

May 29, 2020By Daniel Aldana Cohen
Commentary Higher Education

Student Debt Is Surging at For-Profit Colleges

May 28, 2020By Robert Shireman and Kevin Miller
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Report For-Profit Education

What States Can Do to Protect Students from Predatory For-Profit Colleges

May 26, 2020By Stephanie Hall, Ramond Curtis and Carrie Wofford
Report Middle East

Will the Pandemic Kill Arab Print Journalism?

May 26, 2020By Aron Lund
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Commentary For-Profit Education

States Should Act to Prohibit Mandatory Arbitration in College Enrollment Contracts

May 26, 2020By Anthony Walsh
NEW YORK, NY - MAY 11 :  Sevonna Brown of Black Women's Blueprint , a mutual aid group, looks at her son, Panther Herd, 2, on May 11, 2020 in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood in the Brooklyn borough in New York City. Neighborhood mutual aid groups have been cropping up across New York City in an effort to address the economic impact of eight weeks of economic lockdown and the resulting loss of income. Mutual aid provides free food and essential items to communities most in need. Black Woman's Blueprint runs a van called Sistas Van that visits low-income communities of color. (Photo by Stephanie Keith/Getty Images)
Commentary Race & Inequality

With COVID-19 Testing, We Can’t—Once Again—Overlook Communities of Color

May 22, 2020By Jamila Taylor
WOODBRIDGE, VIRGINIA - APRIL 15: Velocity Urgent Care x-ray technician and medical assistant Britni Chavis disinfects an examination room in between testing patients for the novel coronavirus April 15, 2020 in Woodbridge, Virginia. Able to test about 100 patients a day, the urgent care center does not require an appointment or a doctor's referral and there are no residency requirements for people to be tested for COVID-19. Velocity was able to supplement the Woodbridge location with personal protection equipment from its other locations, including Hampton Roads and Norfolk. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Commentary Healthcare

Pre-Existing Condition Protections Are at Risk in the Wake of COVID-19

May 21, 2020By Jen Mishory
WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 18:  U.S. President Donald Trump listens during a roundtable in the State Dining Room of the White House May 18, 2020 in Washington, DC. President Trump held a roundtable meeting with Restaurant Executives and Industry Leaders at the White House today.  (Photo by Doug Mills - Pool/Getty Images)
Commentary Rediscovering Government

Trump’s Hollow Economy

May 21, 2020By Michael McCormack and Jeff Madrick
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA  - MARCH 20: Leanne Francis, first grade teacher at Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy, conducts an online class from her living room on March 20, 2020 in San Francisco, California. With schools closed across the United States due to the COVID19 pandemic, teachers are holding some classes for students online. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
Commentary Early Education

Who Cares about Those Who Care?

May 20, 2020By Levi Bohanan
WARREN, MICHIGAN - MAY 18: United Auto Workers members leave the Fiat Chrysler Automobiles Warren Truck Plant after the first work shift on May 18, 2020 in Warren, Michigan. Fiat Chrysler along with rivals Ford and General Motors Co., restarted the assembly lines on Monday after several week of inactivity due to the COVID-19 pandemic. (Photo by Gregory Shamus/Getty Images)
Commentary Unemployment

Workers Need OSHA Representation during the COVID-19 Crisis

May 20, 2020By Moshe Marvit
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Report Higher Education Equity

What’s Good and What’s Missing in the HEROES Act

May 19, 2020By The Century Foundation
NEW EAGLE, PA - SEPTEMBER 24: A plume of exhaust extends from the Mitchell Power Station, a coal-fired power plant built along the Monongahela River, 20 miles southwest of Pittsburgh, on September 24, 2013 in New Eagle, Pennsylvania. The plant, owned by FirstEnergy, will be one of two plants in the region to be shut down, affecting 380 employees.  The Evironmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Obama administration have been taking major steps to get coal-fired power plants into compliance with clean air regulations. (Photo by Jeff Swensen/Getty Images)
Commentary Rights & Justice

Environmental Racism Has Left Black Communities Especially Vulnerable to COVID-19

May 19, 2020By Casey Berkovitz
VAN NUYS, CALIFORNIA - APRIL 09: A boy wears a face mask as food is delivered to his truck at a Food Bank distribution for those in need as the coronavirus pandemic continues on April 9, 2020 in Van Nuys, California. Organizers said they had distributed food for 1,500 families amid the spread of COVID-19.  (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)
Commentary Rediscovering Government

A Better Child Tax Credit During the COVID-19 Crisis

May 14, 2020By Megan A. Curran
STAMFORD, CONNECTICUT - APRIL 18: (EDITORIAL USE ONLY) Recovering from COVID-19, Guatemalan immigrant Junior, 7, tries to log-in to his school ChromeBook on April 18, 2020 in Stamford, Connecticut. He and his father Marvin have been sick and in quarantine at home for several weeks. His mother, Zully, a Guatemalan asylum seeker also sick with COVID-19, gave birth to baby boy named Neysel by emergency C-section at Stamford Hospital. Junior's Bilingual /ESL teacher Luciana Lira at Hart Magnet Elementary in Stamford, became temporary guardian for the newborn, while the family recovers. Lira continues remote teaching her elementary school students, while also caring for the infant at home. She plans to continue doing so until the Guatemalan family all test negative for the virus and can care for the child themselves. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)
Commentary Early Education

English Learners Are Home with Their Home Languages, and That’s Okay

May 12, 2020By Dr. Conor P. Williams
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Report K - 12

Expanding Access to Summer Learning in Response to COVID-19

May 12, 2020By Halley Potter
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