By Neil Cosgrove Here’s the awful truth: a significant, at times decisive, set of Pennsylvania legislators don’t believe their state has an obligation to provide affordable higher education to its less affluent […]
School Integration
By Maggie Weaver “We conclude that the doctrine of ‘separate but equal’ has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal” — Chief Justice Earl Warren, 1954 On May 17, 1954, the […]
Security Firm at Odds With Values of Many in North Hills Community
By Sister Mary Traupman Trib Media, 3-28-18: “The North Allegheny School District canceled a training session scheduled for March 28 by its security consultant after a parent complained about posts the company’s […]
Tuition Trends Need to Change
By Michael Calhoun Ask people what they know about college tuition and usually you get one of two answers: they either say that it costs too much, or that it’s rising too […]
A Story About The Citizen Science Lab
May 8, 2017 By Bette McDevitt On a recent Friday, high school students came into a science lab here in Pittsburgh, put on white coats, blue plastic gloves, and protective eyewear to […]
Duquesne Administration Continues to Defy NLRB and Catholic Social Teaching
May 5, 2017 By Neil Cosgrove The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has, once again, ruled against the Duquesne University administration, telling it to cease nearly five years of stonewalling and begin […]
Bad Budgets = Bad Results
This is a set of articles in which leaders of local service organizations describe the possible impacts of proposed federal budget cuts on the services they provide and the issues that concern […]
Is Duquesne University Religiously Exempt from Bargaining with Faculty?
By Neil Cosgrove This piece originally appeared in the May 2015 of the NewPeople in-print publication. Update to come in the May 2017 issues of the NewPeople. In refusing to bargain […]
“Gifted:” Privilege & Oppression In Public School
April 11, 2017 By Mollie March-Steinman I attended Pittsburgh Public Schools from kindergarten through high school, and it was an honor to do so. I loved being surrounded by vibrant, talented young […]
In Defense of Science
By Nijah Glenn Science has always been a field of controversy. From the beginnings of modern science in the ancient world to the Middle Ages to the recent autism vaccine controversy, one […]
