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The Economics of Optimism

Perhaps you can call it the economics of optimism: a George Washington University economist predicts there will be job gains under Obamacare.

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Unthinking Mathematics

If you find recent college graduates to be computationally challenged (i. e., unable to do basic math), don’t expect that to change anytime soon.

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Administer Me

“Our universities are employing as many administrators as full-time faculty.”—John McNay, president, Ohio Conference of the American Association of University Professors, before the Ohio House Finance Subcommittee on Higher Education.

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The Omen

“Most ominously, Americans now question the need – and significantly – the value of a college degree.”—Brian C. Mitchell, on the American Association of University Professors Academe blog.

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Deconstructing The Constitution

The U.S. Constitution gets the Rodney Dangerfield treatment (“no respect”) in academia probably more than anywhere else.

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Giving back

George Washington University School of Business Hosts 3rd Annual “Business Gives Back” on April 20. What did they take?

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Wallowing In Crimson Irony

At a time of record public deficits, personal bankruptcies and business failures at home, not to mention fatal U. S. embassy attacks abroad, only an academic could believe we are being well-governed.

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The Fix Is In

President Obama may have spoken warmly about charter schools but don’t expect his administration to do anything to aid them anytime soon.

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Disabling Definitions

A Wharton School economist went a long way towards diagnosing the causes of the explosion in federal disability insurance costs but couldn’t quite bring himself to go the distance.