Further evidence that charter schools work better than traditional public schools: They are making the right enemies.
Read the articleWhile insider and outsiders debate the value of a college degree in today’s market, one criminal attorney has found a surprising utility for a college education: It can help you get parole.
Read the articleAt least one academic is acknowledging the genocide of China’s communist dictator Mao Tse Tung but not the scale of the chairman’s atrocities.
Read the articleThe very people who cry out for academic freedom—the professoriat—are most likely to suppress it.
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If the CEO of any business became a millionaire overnight by a vote of the board, you would have heard about it by now. When a college president achieves this feat, though, it gets covered by—the college newspaper.
Read the articleThose Catholic colleges and universities that sought their independence from the Mother Church back in the 1960s may want to seek its protective custody now.
Read the articleThose who would herd millions of Americans into college never wonder if they might be better off somewhere else. Perhaps they should.
Read the articleThe president’s favorite think tank continues to press for more federal funding for public schools, even while acknowledging recent failures of such subsidies.
Read the articleAt least one congressional representative is not prepared to give higher education a blank check, probably because she worked in it.
Read the articleAlthough she still considers herself a liberal, veteran journalist Claudia Dreifus found out just how intolerant the Left can be when she critiqued one of their totems in the book she co-authored, Higher Education? How Colleges Are Wasting Our Money and Failing Our Kids—And What We Can Do About It.
Read the articleOne of the lesser known policies of the era of Mao Tse Tung was the relegation of Confucianism to the memory hole in Communist China. Lately, Confucius has been making a reappearance there, according to an historian from the University of Pittsburgh.
Read the articleClass warfare may have little appeal to the masses but academics, who are mostly in the upper class, can’t get enough of it.
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