Articles by Deborah Lambert

Kathleen Kingsbury, in a Daily Beast exclusive, lets college admissions officers tell their personal stories about why some students make the cut and others don’t.

Considering the current global economic crisis, it would be nice if students could become more conversant with economic terminology, even if it’s only the basics.

Those who say we’re turning into mind-numbed robots may find ample support for this view in the current crop of college applications.

Could the global economic crisis actually force the nation’s colleges and universities to rethink their priorities?

A new book called Men to Boys by history professor Gary Cross, compares the current generation of young men with the post-World War II generation, and children raised in the 1960s.

A British shopping mall cancelled its annual children’s caroling event because it was deemed a health hazard.

The food Nazis are at it again.

Those of you who believe that public education couldn’t get much worse might be interested in comments made by Bill Ayers just two years ago.

Now that former Clinton-era Treasury Secretary Larry Summers is part of President Obama’s inner circle, you’d think that bygones would be bygones.

With the multitude of freedoms that college students are exposed to in college, one thing they never get enough of is sleep.

Author/teacher Paul Kengor reported that the reason that Barack Obama’s radical ties do not resonate with young voters is that “the history and truth about communism is not taught by our educators.”

When members of the D.C. Federation of College Democrats traveled to Ohio this fall to rev up undecided voters, they were surprised when one member of an Eastern European household shouted that he supported “Obama the Communist.