Disappointing job numbers
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Corporations have enjoyed record earnings and are sitting on more than $2 trillion in profits. The stock market closed above 12,000 this week. Corporations have used the money to pay record bonuses rather than to expand business and to create new jobs in America. Job growth is slower than in any post-war recovery as … Read more
For-profit colleges: huge student loan default rates
by David Safier For-profit colleges too often sucker students with promises of future jobs, get them to take big government-insured loans, then take the money and run. Often the training programs aren't what they're cracked up to be, or the students lack the background to succeed in the programs. The 3-year default rate on student … Read more
Kansas journalist goes after G.I.’s Matthew Ladner
by David Safier Here on his home turf, Goldwater Institute's Matthew Ladner is treated by the media as a reliable source, a paragon of intellectual virtue. Even when he earns a Bunkum Award from the National Education Policy Center and I give the media all the information it needs, no one seems to think it's … Read more
Cheating on high stakes tests? Who woulda guessed
by David Safier When test scores are make-or-break for teachers and administrators, it causes some people to bend the rules to save their bacon and/or boost their standing. Stories have emerged of outright cheating, like teachers and/or administrators erasing students' wrong answers and bubbling in the right ones. Less blatant ways to "help" students before … Read more
Update: Corporate Media Bias in Healthcare Reporting – Shock! (Not)
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The corproate media continues to focus on the two outlier decisions by conservative activist judges while largely failig to report decisions in favor of the Affordable Care Act. Case in point, the New York Times today reported that Va. to Ask Supreme Court to Rule on Health Law, but somehow failed to … Read more
Mark Kelly to command space shuttle mission
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The New York Times reports Wounded Congresswoman’s Husband Will Fly on Shuttle: Cmdr. Mark E. Kelly, the husband of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, will head the space shuttle mission in April that he was assigned to command before his wife was shot, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration is expected to announce today. … Read more
Community Forum in Support of TUSD Ethnic Studies Program on Saturday
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Announcement from TUSD Mexican American Studies Program: Community Forum in Support of TUSD Ethnic Studies Program Saturday, February 5, 2011 at 2:00 pmEl Pueblo Center Senior Building101 W Irvington Rd, Tucson, AZ 85714 An Open Invitation to the Tucson Community:Stand Up in Support of Our Children's Educational Rights On behalf of the … Read more
