Originally posted at All Education Matters. While millions of Americans will join the indentured educated class after graduation this Spring, policy analysts focused their attention on money going directly to the institutions of higher education. The issue at hand last week? Pell Grants. I want to make it clear: I am not against ...

Originally published at Loop 21. Young protesters drowning in student loan debt want to ignite America’s autumn revolt. Remember the Arab Spring, and how protesters demanding democratic rights took to social media to begin a massive, widespread protest throughout the Middle East? It didn’t happen overnight but most of those civilian led ...

Originally posted at All Education Matters. Sensationally smart. Wicked sense of humor. Loving. Deeply religious and caring. These are a few words that come to mind when describing my friend who is a devoted mother and an indentured educated citizen. We have exchanged emails for years, and I have now been ...

Originally posted September 9 at All Education Matters. For many of us who tuned in to watch the President's speech, we were reminded of Candidate Obama. But more than that, he sounded Presidential. For the first time, the President sounded strong, hopeful, and - most importantly - sympathetic. The Democrats would rise to their ...

Originally published at All Education Matters. In July of 2008, Barbara Ehrenreich wrote a piece entitled, "Suicide Spreads as One Solution to the Debt Crisis."  The article touched upon the housing crash, and Ehrenreich highlighted several cases in which people took their lives when they knew they were losing their homes. Ehrenreich ...

A number of you have asked me to draft letters to the President. So, I am launching a new series - "Letters to the President." Each week, AEM will send a letter to the President, urging him to take immediate measures to help those of us who are drowning in student ...

Originally posted at All Education Matters. If you want to get a grasp of the political and economic structures behind neoliberalism, I recommend David Harvey's A Brief History of Neoliberalism (Oxford University Press, 2007). Harvey does an excellent job of demonstrating how capitalism informs everyday life, both at the micro- and macro-levels. Michael ...

Originally posted this morning at All Education Matters. All Education Matters has been reporting about the threat to Pell Grants since mid-May. It is on the chopping block, and some members of the GOP have described the program as being akin to welfare. Pell has helped many low-income and minority students pay ...

I was in Naples many years ago. It was the farthest south I went in Italy. By the time we arrived in Naples, Italy was already heating up and the city smelled like moist baby diapers. Naples was and is unruly, more so than Northern Italy. It's known for that. ...

This article originally appeared on USA Today. Permission to reprint graciously granted by the author. -ed. Severe car accidents can be devastating. When such an event includes a passenger who owes private student loans, the financial trauma makes it downright ruinous. Just ask Deborah Schutz. In December of 2008, Schutz’s daughter ...