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📷 This Labor Day, Mary Alice McCarthy and I explore key reads and watch documentaries that shed light on the labor movement's past and future. Check it out: newamerica.org/the-thread/mus… #LaborDay2024 #FutureOfWork #ReadingList

Today, we're announcing a first-of-its-kind initiative to support community and technical #colleges as they maximize their impact across innovation ecosystems. 🚀 Read more about our #FutureOfWork partnership with U.S. National Science Foundation and the launch of the Accelerator. newamerica.org/education-poli…

🆕Big news! Today, U.S. National Science Foundation and New America announce a strategic initiative supported by Ascendium's Education Philanthropy to empower community & technical colleges in regional innovation ecosystems in #NSFEngines created under the #CHIPSAct newamerica.org/education-poli…

Balancing Dual Enrollment & Community Needs: A Challenge for Community Colleges via Iris Palmer New America Ed newamerica.org/education-poli…

While states fund dual enrollment in a variety of ways, most do not provide as much money to the community college for a student enrolled in high school as they do for a student who has graduated. newamerica.org/education-poli… Iris Palmer New America Ed

How does #DualEnrollment threaten the financial health of community colleges? 🔎 Here, our director for #CommunityColleges Iris Palmer explains how limited resources make it tough for programs to support both high school and adult students enrolled. newamerica.org/education-poli…

I learned so much working on this primer on work-based learning at community colleges *and* got to work with Rachel Rush-Marlowe ResearchEd Win-win! newamerica.org/education-poli…

Great analysis from my colleague Tia Caldwell: despite 4.5 years when it was essentially impossible to default on a student loan, and the Department of Ed's "Fresh Start" program, 6.8 million people are still in default. newamerica.org/education-poli…

Are Microcredentials a Path to Good Jobs? Sometimes. Analysis and insight via Iris Palmer New America Ed drawing on data from Georgetown CEW newamerica.org/education-poli…

Paul Fain's weekly newsletter is always good, but his account this week of how the OMB order sowed chaos in workforce programs is a must read.

Stressed about rising child care costs? Do something about it! Sign Moms First's letter calling on President Donald J. Trump to save and expand the child care tax credit. momsfirst.us/childcare/?snw…

Calling to higher ed and friends of higher ed: Read this thread. We are mobilizing.

The story of how the Department of ED responded in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina—from long-time civil servant and champion for students, David Bergeron. newamerica.org/education-poli…

1/ I wrote about Linda McMahon's so-called "final mission" to destroy the U.S. Department of Education from within. The most important thing to emphasize is that this lawless "mission" is doomed to failure, as long as people stand up, speak out, and fight back.

Anyone actually interested in reducing waste, fraud, and abuse in education should favor tighter regulation of cosmetology schools that leave students deep in debt. My colleague Jeremy Wolf details endemic problems at one Paul Mitchell academy. newamerica.org/education-po...

To be clear - this is an act of violence against hard-working career servants, against the middle class, against workers everywhere… It is cruel, unnecessary, and obviously illegal…

I worked at the US Department of Education along side brilliant and dedicated public servants who are committed to improving students’ access to a quality education so they can fully participate in our economy. Let’s also remember /1

A day after Secretary Linda McMahon fired half of U.S. Department of Education employees, the Federal Student Aid is down. Don’t worry, though, since they fired the people who would fix it they lied and added a planned maintenance label once they realized it was broken.

This is Trump's true education agenda: Not a reduced federal role, but an ideological takeover without precedent. DOGE commissars want control over who colleges admit, what colleges teach, what students and faculty are allowed to say. It will not stop at Columbia. You're next.