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Blue collar, white collar: Brittany Bronson on teaching and waitressing

You and your parents sit down at a restaurant, and the server turns out to be your professor. It could be awkward. It could be embarrassing. And it could also lead to some serious thinking and questioning about our attitudes toward different kinds of jobs. Brittany Bronson is a college instructor, waitress, and contributor to the New York Times, where this article was published in December 2014.

Read it here: Bronson, "Your waitress, your professor”

 

Investing in people: Jon Marcus on public higher education funding

While most states continue to suffer deep cuts to funding for public higher education, North Dakota and Alaska are increasing their education budgets substantially. Journalist Dan Marcus, who specializes in issues of higher education, examines the reasons for the difference in this article published by the Hechinger Report, an education-related news organization, in November 2014.

Read it here: Marcus, "Why two states have poured money into public higher education”