Short-Sighted: NCLB Taking Students In Wrong Direction By Cutting Recess, PE

Studies are increasingly revealing the connection between physical exercise and performance in the classroom.

Trisha Marczak
بواسطة Trisha Marczak

Fourth-grade student Kevin Killion listens attentively to his daily class lesson, all the while walking at a moderate pace on a classroom treadmill. “It gets oxygen in your brain,” the fourth grader told Mint Press News. “I feel like I get a lot of oxygen so I can go back to work and work better.” Killion is among a generation of learners who are

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Report: Colleges Sneakily Use Financial Aid To Attract Wealthier Students At Expense Of Poor

According to the report, private colleges use “merit”-based aid to attract wealthier students instead of improving access to the poor.

Katie Rucke
بواسطة Katie Rucke

A new report out this month found that affluent students are given more financial assistance than their lower-income peers. It’s a trend called “gapping,” where low-income students are given a financial aid package that does not come close to meeting their needs. The report was authored by Stephen Burd, a senior policy analyst with the New America

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‘Thirdworldizing’ America

About 23 percent of Americans wanting work can’t find it. Most jobs are temp or part-time low pay ones with no futures.

Stephen Lendman
بواسطة Stephen Lendman

Center for Economic and Policy Research co-director Dean Baker calls poverty America's "new growth industry." The state of today's America is deplorable. In his latest May 3 analysis, economist John Williams said April "employment and unemployment data were nonsense: the economy remains in serious trouble." About 23 percent of Americans wanting

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Utah To Be First To Use Dual-Model Health Exchange

The plan allows Utah to continue to run its existing health insurance marketplace for small businesses.

Associated Press
بواسطة Associated Press

SALT LAKE CITY — The federal government has approved Utah to become the first state to have a dual-model health insurance exchange in which the state and the federal government divide responsibilities. The plan allows Utah to continue to run its existing health insurance marketplace for small businesses, a system that lets employees pick health

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Inside The DPRK: How A Caste System Structures Everyday Realities For North Koreans

Pyongyang citizens grieve as they visit a portrait of late North Korean leader Kim Jong Il on display in the plaza of the Pyongyang Indoor Stadium, in Pyongyang, North Korea Wednesday Dec. 21, 2011. (AP Photo) There is a strange phenomenon that lingers over every North Korean. For the past five decades, an arbitrary determination […]

Frederick Reese
بواسطة Frederick Reese

There is a strange phenomenon that lingers over every North Korean. For the past five decades, an arbitrary determination decides where they will live, what hospitals they will go to if they are sick, if they can go to college, if they can marry and even if they will receive a full serving of food. This de facto caste system has nothing to do with

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Michigan’s Economic Woes Hit Schools As One Shuts Down

An acute budget crisis has forced the Buena Vista School District to lay off all teachers and close its doors.

Mint Press News Desk
بواسطة Mint Press News Desk

With the decline of major auto manufacturing in Detroit and the collapse of the housing market across the United States, Michigan continues to struggle during the sluggish economic recovery years after the 2008 economic recession. It’s now affecting public schools, as reports emerge that an acute budget crisis has forced the Buena Vista School

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