"Incarceration rates are on the rise alongside economic inequality, and children aren’t exempt. Quite often, the only crime these children have committed is that they’re from vulnerable families or suffering from mental health issues."
"Taxpaying families are paying more for public school employees but getting less public education for their children in return."
"More than 20 percent of college students use their financial aid money to invest in cryptocurrencies, according to new findings by The Student Loan Report, a website for student loan information."
"It turns out that advertising to the world that you believe in racial segregation and obedience to the loudest common denominator turns out not to be good for business."
"Calling the police on nonviolent license offenses is the adult equivalent of throwing a temper tantrum on the playground, except the temper tantrum doesn’t have a chance of ending in shots fired."
"With a phone pressed to the side of their sanctimonious faces, this army of volunteer state minions get to feel like their local police--tyrannical psychopaths."
"The Pew study indicates that there is a significant cognitive problem among US people in being able to assess facts from opinions."
"Students in Spain have been forced to leave their homes despite having paid their accommodation fees to make way for migrants who just arrived on the Aquarius rescue ship in Valencia."
"WeWork’s vast network of creatives and entrepreneurs, Neumann hopes, can help WeGrow students cultivate their passions."
"Ivy League strivers in the U.S. may think they have it tough with their Advanced Placement tests and résumé-polishing community service. But they have nothing on the offspring of China, where a ticket to prosperity boils down to a couple of exams that have been known to induce breakdowns or even suicides: a high school entrance exam, the Zhongkao, and a college test, the Gaokao."