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25 mars 2018

Chasing the Lit Mag Photo Essay, 6

By Oronte. Early scholars of gated communities in America point out that the walls don’t just enclose and separate the well-to-do. They also inspire containment for the less powerful: closed streets and barriers, such as highways, in urban neighborhoods; fences around low-income housing projects; cul-de-sacs and meandering streets that discourage public transport in subdivisions; and dead-end roads in trailer parks. More...

25 mars 2018

Chasing the Lit Mag Photo Essay, 5

By Oronte. Our friend Matt had told us about the explosive growth of San Antonio, how it was projected to double again in size within the decade, and how the wealthy were retreating to its north edge. He said there were areas where rich lived cheek-by-jowl with poor, which might make for a meaningful visual contrast in our new gilded age. We took a ride. More...

25 mars 2018

Chasing the Lit Mag Photo Essay, 4

By Oronte. The Dirties were great hosts, friendly and welcoming. Tigger’s grilled chicken and jalapeno poppers were terrific, and the Lone Star plentiful. But the campfire and Christmas lights strung overhead weren’t ideal for Donato’s needs, and he wasn’t happy with the shots he peered at on the back of his camera and measured against something in his mind. More...

25 mars 2018

Ashford Seeks to Become a Nonprofit

HomeBy Paul Fain. Ashford University is the latest big for-profit bidding to become nonprofit. The university's owner, Bridgepoint Education, will seek to become an online program management company. More...

25 mars 2018

Education Department Sued Over Defrauded Borrowers

HomeBy Andrew Kreighbaum. Four plaintiffs who attended Corinthian Colleges programs are suing Secretary Betsy DeVos and the Department of Education in U.S. district court over a plan to award partial relief of student loan debt to borrowers defrauded or misled by their institutions. More...

25 mars 2018

Lawmakers Question DeVos Plans

HomeBy Andrew Kreighbaum. Both Democratic and Republican lawmakers -- although to varying degrees -- expressed frustrations with the proposed White House education budget in a hearing Tuesday. More...

25 mars 2018

Veterans Blast GOP Bill as Giveaway to For-Profits

HomeBy Andrew Kreighbaum. Late last summer, President Trump signed into law a long-awaited update to the GI Bill -- a rare moment of bipartisanship in the first year of the Trump administration and a major victory for veterans’ groups. More...

25 mars 2018

Trump Takes Another Swipe at Community Colleges

HomeBy Andrew Kreighbaum. President Trump, in forum on issues facing young people, extols vocational training and repeats comments that many educators said reflected ignorance of the two-year sector. He also says he is more popular on college campuses than most realize. More...

25 mars 2018

Inspector General Urges Keeping College Accountability Measures

HomeBy Andrew Kreighbaum. Although some federal higher ed accountability measures have been ineffective, they should be preserved and strengthened, not scrapped, the Department of Education's inspector general says in a report released Monday. More...

25 mars 2018

HBCUs and the Trump Administration

HomeBy Andrew Kreighbaum. Officials from the Trump administration have faced intense protests when visiting historically black colleges and universities, and leaders of those institutions themselves have taken heat from students and faculty for even meeting with administration officials. More...

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