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Guest View: In Defense Of Student Privacy, Richard J. Peltz-Steele
Guest View: In Defense Of Student Privacy, Richard J. Peltz-Steele
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Privacy is another American value we rush to sacrifice on the altar of accountability. In Ohio, reporters swarm the yards of liberated kidnapping victims. And in Massachusetts, news trucks besiege the campus at UMass Dartmouth, where I work, and where marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was a student. Media want to know everything about Tsarnaev and his college friends. The university, bound by federal privacy law, has refused access to student academic and financial aid records.
The Common School Before And After Brown: Democracy, Equality, And The Productivity Agenda, Rosemary C. Salomone
The Common School Before And After Brown: Democracy, Equality, And The Productivity Agenda, Rosemary C. Salomone
Faculty Publications
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In recent years, economic forces of global magnitude have placed the substance and value of education in the national spotlight. With jobs for college graduates in short supply, political pundits and news commentators have placed different estimates on the worth of a college degree and the continued utility of the liberal arts. Economists tie specific educational factors to future income. A high school diploma, we are told, can translate into an additional $300,000 in lifetime salary. A highly effective kindergarten teacher likewise carries a value-added benefit of $320,000, the additional income that a classroom of today’s students may earn …