WADE RATHKE is the founder of ACORN, Chief Organizer at ACORN International, and Author of "Nuts & Bolts", "Citizen Wealth", "Global Grassroots", and "The Battle for the 9th Ward".
New Orleans Colleges and universities are in the news these days, but that’s mainly because Trump is attacking higher education in general and in individual cases, he is joining with his subservient Education Department in attempting to force specific institutions to kowtow to his will and program. After a flurry of beatdowns at …
Marble Falls A headline in the news said that the great state of Texas was moving to allocate $1-billion to a voucher program there. One red state after another has tried to skim dollars away from public education support to support private education, largely through church-based schools or pick-up places, based on a …
Santa Marta, Columbia It turns out that it’s not easy, according to some claims, even in this time of great inequity to manufacture elites, even in super selective universities and the vaunted Ivy League colleges based in the United States. There’s no question that the glide path to the elite, if you’re rich or …