- Why Rich Kids Are Cheating On Their College Entrance Exams
- Study: Many College Students Not Learning to Think Critically
- Dumbing Us Down: The GOP’s Assault on Higher Education
- Arizona House committee OKs tuition-contribution bill--"James Allen, UA student-body president, told legislators that by passing the bill, legislators would make it harder to achieve a higher-education degree. Rep. Michelle Ugenti, R-Scottsdale, replied, "Welcome to life.""
- Thousands march on Capitol to protest cuts in college funding
- We Need Both Plumbers and English Majors
- Would you rather be a novel or a poem?--How to get into college.
- Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal plans to privatize public education
- "Stealing" Free Education? Homeless Mother Gets Jail Time For Sending Her Son to a Better School District
- When did teacher bashing become the new national pastime?
- Academic publishers run a guarded knowledge economy: The business model for scholarly papers forms a barrier to the public, but can such walls remain standing?
- Locked in the Ivory Tower: Why JSTOR Imprisons Academic Research
- Polymath Wiki: Journal publishing reform--"This is a collection of links to information, opinion, activism, and other issues concerning the practices of research journal publishers (particularly in the mathematical sciences)."
- Academic publishers have become the enemies of science--"The US Research Works Act would allow publishers to line their pockets by locking publicly funded research behind paywalls."
- Academic publisher Elsevier hit with growing boycott--"The 'Cost of Knowledge' campaign was started by an international group of researchers in January after a blog post by Cambridge University math professor Timothy Gowers. He criticized the Dutch-based publisher Elsevier for charging 'very high prices' for access to its articles, using a 'ruthless' approach to negotiations with academic libraries and supporting legislation that could hamper the move to more open access to published research. "
- Scientists' Victory Over the Research Works Act Is Like the SOPA Defeat--Elsevier backed down.
- University of California teacher union to block online courses
- Idaho Teachers Fight a Reliance on Computers NYT
- TWKYK: How teachers decided the rules of school
- Did you know: Even Shakespeare got banned from TUSD with MAS ruling?
- Missouri high school orders "Slaughterhouse-Five" to be pulled from shelves. Vonnegut gives copies to students for free
- Court rules against web censorship for high school students
- Honor Students Punished for Their Website--"Twin-brother honor students claim in Federal Court that their public school "callously" suspended them for 180 days for setting up and running a nonviolent website on their own time and on their own computers."
- Pic Of Sleeping Sub Nets Student Suspension
- School suspends cancer survivor over long hair he plans to donate
