What the student loan burden means for the economy, and the students
The Federal Reserve bank of New York released a new study today showing that student loans are now the second largest debt of US households, following home mortgages. The more harrowing part of the...
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Today on BaddiesBoogie I suspected that with the new unemployment figures at their highest point ever, the Eurozone experiment is reaching a tipping point, then I argued that given the reluctance of...
View ArticleShould US schools abandon grades?
Michael Thomsen makes the case: Grading students, from A to F, has become synonymous with education itself. Report-card day is an American rite of passage. Yet, there’s reason to believe the structure...
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Today on BaddiesBoogie I pondered whether or not US schools should abandon the current grading system for a more holistic approach to education, ridiculed and lambasted the GOP’s seemingly endless war...
View ArticleTeen student faces felony charges for a science experiment gone bad. Seriously?
16-year-old Kiera Wilmot faces prison for this: The teen is accused of mixing household chemicals in a tiny 8-ounce water bottle, causing the top to pop off, followed by billowing smoke in an small...
View ArticleBelgium, France and Spain have 100 percent of their kids in pre-K. We have 51...
Well really according to this awesome interactive map, Belgium and Spain stand at 99 percent, but you get the idea. One of the more bold ideas to come out of President Obama’s last State of the Union...
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Today on BaddiesBoogie I began by considering the ridiculous and upsetting story out of Florida that a young high school student has been expelled and charged with two felonies simply for attempting a...
View ArticleThe tragedy of our broken financial aid system: taking from the poor and...
I attend a private university. I chose to do so for the smaller classes, the heightened access to professors, the improved autonomy and the simple yet profound emphasis that smaller universities...
View ArticleRepublican Governor Claims Education Became Mediocre When Women Started Working
Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant (R) believes that he knows when America’s educational troubles began: when mom left the house and started working. Participating in an event sponsored by Washington Post...
View ArticleThe Student Loan Debt Crisis is a Big Deal
You’ve heard it all before when it comes to the skyrocketing debt that 20 somethings have and will continue to accumulate to make up for the astronomical cost of attaining a degree, but it’s worth...
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