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The college class of 2012 is in for a rude welcome to the world of work. A weak labor market already has left half of young college graduates either jobless or underemployed in positions that don’t fully use their skills and knowledge. Young adults with bachelor’s degrees are increasingly scraping by in lower-wage jobs — [...]

Adult swim finally came off its high horse and cut the check to Aaron McGruder. We shall reap the benefits of this collaboration. No set date on when this will appear but most likely it’ll be a summer series as opposed to fall since it does come on at 11:00pm EST. Download Video or MP3 [...]

Harvard University Announcement No tuition and no student loans Harvard University announced over the weekend that from now on undergraduate students from low-income families will pay no tuition. In making the announcement, Harvard’s president Lawrence H. Summers said, “When only ten percent of the students in elite higher education come from families in the lower half of the income distribution, we [...]

  New York City’s Community School Districts are being redlined: the practice of systemically denying resources to poor and minority neighborhoods.   According to a new report by the Schott Foundation for Public Education, because of New York City’s policies and practices, the city’s poor, Black and Hispanic students’ educational outcomes are more determined by [...]

Faster than we recognise, schools are becoming profit centres. The buildings, the teaching, the cleaning, the exam results are all ways to make money. But who benefits? Not the poorest, argues Melissa Benn. About the author Melissa Benn is a writer and campaigner. Her latest book School Wars: The Battle for Britain’s Education is published by [...]

The New York City Department of Education (NYCDOE) has released new social media guidelines. Among the various new rules for teachers, Facebook friending with students has been banned. Doe Social Media Guidelines In an attempt to minimize social media negligence, the New York City Department of Education (NYCDOE) has released new guidelines that define how [...]

The City of Philadelphia municipal government, through the Philadelphia Youth Network’s WorkReady Summer Internship program, will be hiring 100 Philadelphia high school students for our 2012 “Summer in the City” High School internship! The internship is a 6-week paid, summer opportunity within various municipal departments and offices beginning on July 2, 2012 and ending on [...]

Violence erupted in the streets of Montreal Wednesday night after talks broke down between student groups and the Quebec government, leading to 85 arrests and shattered windows. Several police officers were also injured in the riot that left the city stunned Thursday. Banks and other businesses, cars, even a police station had their windows shattered [...]

  During at least one 420 celebration in Alaska on Friday, you’ll be invited to pour yourself a drink instead of lighting up. In the counterculture world, “420” is the code for cannabis consumption, and April 20 — or 4/20 — is the holy day. But instead of passing around a joint, why not pour [...]

Don’t kill, spray, tear up, or destroy the weeds in your garden, yard, and fence rows. Many of them are actually highly-regarded, widely-used, and extremely-valuable medicinal herbs! What could be easier than growing an herb garden with no effort? Of course, you’ll have to harvest your edible weeds, but you would do that anyhow: it’s [...]

Look at the list of Schedule 1 drugs… How does Marijuana fit into this list?? The drugs and other substances that are considered controlled substances under the CSA are divided into five schedules. A listing of the substances and their schedules is found in the DEA regulations, 21 C.F.R. Sections 1308.11 through 1308.15. A controlled [...]

For the third year running, an all-male charter school with students from Chicago’s roughest neighborhoods is sending its entire senior class to college. Urban Prep Academy reports that all 85 seniors graduating from the all-male preparatory school have been accepted to four-year colleges or universities, the third consecutive year an entire senior class has gotten [...]