Articles by Deborah Lambert

As if the educationistas weren’t interfering in our lives enough these days, now they’re trying to push the notion that school kids shouldn’t have “best friends.”

While conservatives are fighting an uphill battle on most liberal American campuses these days, their beleaguered minority status is still a threat to some well entrenched interest groups.

In the highly competitive online environment where everyone is seeking to develop a niche market, Christian colleges appear to be gaining ground, according to Education News.

A new documentary film called “The Lottery” that takes on the topic of charter schools, is getting cheers and jeers from critics and filmgoers.

For students who are bored with the same old special interest campus groups, Naomi Rockler-Gladen reported that they might try something a bit out of the ordinary.

Has higher education become the equivalent of a giant Ponzi scheme? Perhaps.

Given the lack of student interest in reading these days, it’s no surprise that the University of California at Berkeley decided to completely change the dynamics of the summer reading list.

When 200 University of Maryland students were asked to blog about their experience of giving up social media outlets for 24 hours, their reactions, ranging from misery to anxiety and frustration, were similar to drug addicts’ withdrawal symptoms, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education.

If you think that today’s professors spend their free time roaming through dusty library stacks, think again.

Students in the Mesquite, Texas school district will have something to look forward to when school re-opens this fall.

In case you hadn’t noticed, Al Gore scooped up another degree at last month’s University of Tennessee commencement ceremonies, despite protests by Knoxville Tea Partiers and Lord Christopher Monckton.

In a recent study of the implications of the “sustainability” movement in higher education, the National Association of Scholars (NAS) reported in their March, 2010 newsletter that “the ideology has gone viral and is being handed down to the next generation on campuses everywhere.”