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☐ ☆ ✇ Dissent MagazineDissent Magazine

The Coming Public Education Crisis

By: Justin H. Vassallo — June 20th 2023 at 12:38

A fiscal calamity awaits public schools once pandemic-related federal assistance ends.

☐ ☆ ✇ NYT > Education

Taking Social Security, Paying Student Debt: Financial Planners Weigh In

By: Elizabeth Harris — April 6th 2023 at 20:56
Readers sent some of their most urgent financial queries, asking about issues like Social Security and student loan debt. Financial planners offered ideas.
☐ ☆ ✇ NYT > Education

For Lower-Income Students, Big Tech Internships Can Be Hard to Get

By: Natasha Singer — April 5th 2023 at 09:00
Critics say the intern selection process often favors wealthier students, just like the admission process at some elite colleges.
☐ ☆ ✇ NYT - Education

The Liberal Maverick Fighting Race-Based Affirmative Action

By: Anemona Hartocollis — April 4th 2023 at 03:25
For decades, Richard Kahlenberg has pushed for a class-conscious approach to college admissions. He may finally get his wish, but it comes at a personal cost.

Richard D. Kahlenberg, whose hero is Robert Kennedy, wants to build a multiracial progressive coalition.
☐ ☆ ✇ NYT - Education

The Income Gap Is Becoming a Physical-Activity Divide

By: Matt Richtel — March 25th 2023 at 09:05
Nationwide, poor children and adolescents are participating far less in sports and fitness activities than their more affluent peers.

Naomi Peralta, at left, prepares for a practice run at Highland High School in Albuquerque, N.M., in February.
☐ ☆ ✇ NYT > Education

The Income Gap Is Becoming a Physical-Activity Divide

By: Matt Richtel — March 25th 2023 at 09:05
Nationwide, poor children and adolescents are participating far less in sports and fitness activities than their more affluent peers.
☐ ☆ ✇ Boing Boing

UK Prices soar as food inflation hits record highs

By: Mark Frauenfelder — March 24th 2023 at 17:07

Food inflation in the UK has been on a steady rise, and the situation is only getting worse. According to the Office for National Statistics, food inflation reached a staggering 18.2% in February. This dramatic increase is primarily attributed to poor crops resulting from bad weather in southern Europe and Africa, leading to the rationing of fruits and vegetables in UK supermarkets. — Read the rest

☐ ☆ ✇ NYT > Education

LAUSD Strike Highlights the Growing Challenges of Los Angeles Life

By: Kurtis Lee and Jill Cowan — March 23rd 2023 at 02:06
Both parents and the striking school district employees are on the same side of the economic divide in one of the nation’s most expensive cities.
☐ ☆ ✇ Latest – The Baffler

Women’s Equality—When?

By: Rafia Zakaria — March 10th 2023 at 18:00
Global gender parity may be more than a century away.
☐ ☆ ✇ NYT - Education

Students Lost One-Third of a School Year to Pandemic, Study Finds

By: Emily Baumgaertner — January 30th 2023 at 16:00
Learning delays and regressions were most severe in developing countries and among children from low-income backgrounds. And students still haven’t caught up.

Elementary school students returning to in-person learning in a school in California in 2021. Education deficits were equivalent to about 35 percent of a school year and remained steady, according to a new study.
☐ ☆ ✇ NYT > Education

See Workers as Workers, Not as a College Credential

By: The Editorial Board — January 28th 2023 at 20:42
Eliminating the college degree requirement for state government jobs is both good policy and good leadership.
☐ ☆ ✇ NYT - Education

See Workers as Workers, Not as a College Credential

By: The Editorial Board — January 28th 2023 at 20:42
Eliminating the college degree requirement for state government jobs is both good policy and good leadership.

☐ ☆ ✇ NYT > Education

Families Struggle as Pandemic Program Offering Free School Meals Ends

By: Linda Qiu — January 22nd 2023 at 08:00
A federal benefit guaranteeing free school meals to millions more students has expired as food prices have risen. Many families are feeling the pinch.
☐ ☆ ✇ NYT - Education

Families Struggle as Pandemic Program Offering Free School Meals Ends

By: Linda Qiu — January 22nd 2023 at 08:00
A federal benefit guaranteeing free school meals to millions more students has expired as food prices have risen. Many families are feeling the pinch.

Universal free school meal programs have drawn widespread support, with polls showing 74 percent of voters and 90 percent of parents favoring them.
☐ ☆ ✇ Salon.com

Switching to an electric car saves money. Unless you’re poor

By: Lylla Younes — January 19th 2023 at 12:45
A new study says 90% of Americans would save by getting an EV. The other 10%, not so much

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