Welcome to the forty-first edition of the Pivot Points and Pivot Points blog e-newsletter...

This Week's Post: Students Alone
The recent student loan deal is a necessary step, but only papers over larger economic problems with higher education financing that ought to be keeping us all up at night...

http://bit.ly/students_alone 

What We're Reading: Surowiecki, Cepeda, Augustine, Porter
New Yorker columnist James Surowiecki explains why the real problem with low-wage jobs isn't low-wage employers...

http://bit.ly/surowiecki_lowages

Esther Cepeda of the Post discusses the four-letter word researchers say defines kids who escape generational poverty...

http://bit.ly/cepeda_vspoverty

The former CEO of Lockheed and current chairman of NAS's review of US competitiveness makes the case for standardized testing...

http://bit.ly/augustine_testing

...while New York Times reporter Eduardo Porter tracks findings that, tests or no, for many today, education is over before it starts...

http://bit.ly/porter_preK


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