And why they have been able to resist his authoritarian demands while the business world capitulates.
Linda McMahon
Posted inHigher Education
The Higher Education Accreditation Wars Are Heating Up
As the Education Department, wisely, tries to reform the opaque, little-known accreditation world with proposed rules—and key negotiations this month—some stakeholders worry that the Trump administration will go too far.
Posted inEducation
How the Supreme Court Helped Trump Dismantle the Education Department
By allowing him to ignore the law and crush the Education Department, the conservative justices let King Trump do whatever he wants to duly enacted statutes.
Posted inHigher Education
Trump’s War on International Students
The administration’s assault on international enrollment threatens not just elite institutions like Harvard, but the financial viability of regional colleges, local economies, and the soft-power infrastructure of U.S. foreign policy.
Posted inMagazine
Tutorize, Don’t Privatize, Public Schools
This article is from a cover package of essays entitled Ten New Ideas for the Democratic Party to Help the Working Class, and Itself. Find the full series here. The subject of K–12 education barely came up during the 2024 presidential campaign. But it’s likely to be a big issue in Washington soon if, as many observers […]
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Four Ways For-Profit Colleges Could Benefit From Trump
Regulation may ease in some cases, but some accountability measures may remain.
Posted inPolitical Animal
Trump and the Triumph of Fake News
It’s hard to dispute one word of Brian Stelter’s February 4 condemnation of the GOP’s memo-based malevolence–and the right-wing media’s key role in fueling the foolishness of Donald Trump and Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA): Geraldo Rivera is also unquestionably correct: had Fox News and Hannity been a prominent cultural/political force in the early 1970s, Richard […]
