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A national debate is growing over the importance of a college degree, and how much it helps graduates to live a better life.

In an age of limits, colleges and universities are expanding, with the aid of taxpayers with increasingly limited resources.

A key dividing line between those within the Ivory Tower and those without might be on the issue of taxes: Academics like them while the rest of us clearly don’t.

A seminal trend may be occurring in media coverage of education, at least at the K-12 level: The press is starting to notice where the problem comes from.

When trying to convince dubious students of the benefits of social security when they are all too familiar with the costs, professors might well ask the question: “Who are you going to believe, me or your paycheck?”

Those diversity mavens in academia want to keep at least one group out of their big tent—the U. S. military.

Professors still believe that the woes that afflict higher education can be solved through federal intervention.

Today, Michelle Rhee announced that she has started an organization called “Students First.”

Because the conservatives most likely to be employed in academia are of the neo variety, students may not get an accurate picture of conservatism or, for that matter, America.

What is known locally in Washington, D. C. as a dog-and-pony show is being played out across the country as proponents of the DREAM Act rally their troops to put this education spending proposal over the top.

The center of the international terrorist network has apparently shifted to Somalia but its target remains the same—the United States.

A professor at that Boston College is warning her students about the dangers of Israel’s presence in the West Bank.