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Posts Tagged ‘OPPORTUNITY’
October 4th, 2012 - 8:33 am § in Hypocrisy, Schools & Colleges
Student Confronts Republican on Cuts to Pell Grants
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What Happened to America As The Land of Opportunity
Der Spiegel Reports: Has America Become an Oligarchy? The Occupy Wall Street movement is just one example of the sudden outbreak of tension between America’s super-rich and the “other 99 percent.” Experts now say the US has entered a second Gilded Age, but one in which hedge fund m[...]
October 15th, 2011 - 9:36 am § in Schools & Colleges
US Passes Mexico in Making University Education a Privilige of the Wealthy
From Seattle Education via Amy Hagopian: Noam Chomsky on Academic Freedom and the Corporatization of Universities A partial transcript from Noam Chomsky’s talk, taken from AlterNet: A couple of months ago, I went to Mexico to give talks at the National University in Mexico, UNAM. It’s q[...]