Troy University professor Christopher T. Warden, the author of an upcoming textbook that Accuracy in Academia is publishing, explains why college tuitions are so high. Hint: It’s not because of a lack of government funding
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College Tuition Explosion Explained
Troy University professor Christopher T. Warden, the author of an upcoming textbook that Accuracy in Academia is publishing, explains why college tuitions are so high. Hint: It’s not because of a lack of government funding.
U.S. Tanzania AIDS Deal
On September 2, the United States President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) announced a grant award to BIPAI of $22.5 million over five years to combat AIDS in Africa.
Messing With Markets Again
Government interference prevents the market from correcting itself, according to two Ludwig von Mises Institute authors.
Self-Inflicted Self Esteem
Psychologist Polly Young-Eisendrath suggests parents raise their children with the perspective that they are ordinary people living among other ordinary folks.
California Math Problems
California educrats have been fighting higher standards in math for a long time, including last year’s proposal to require all 8th graders to take algebra by 2011.
The Initiation of Sarah
Evidently, women’s studies types have found at least one woman they may not want to study, at least as a role model.
Unemployment Deconstructed
A page from the half-full/half empty school of economic indicator reading.
No Child Left Inside
HR 3036, the No Child Left Inside Act (chief author John Sarbanes, Democrat, MD), gives states and schools incentives (federal grants) to conduct “environmental education” programs within existing classes.
Biden Fails Again
U. S. Senator Joe Biden, D-Del., four decades after finishing his education, still fails on original scholarship, according to an actual scholar.
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Remembering Josiah Henson
Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth are well-known former slaves and abolitionists in pre-American Civil War history, but Josiah Henson has been seemingly forgotten by history. At the Josiah Henson Leadership Conference held in the Maryland…
Mizzou Administrator: Black Activists’ Demands Violate State, Federal Laws
The arbitrary deadlines and demands cannot be put into place, said one Mizzou administrator: Concerned Student 1950’s newly updated list of demands would not only violate “state and federal law” but also the university’s established…
Republicans Increase Education Spending
Not that that’s a good thing. At the Cato Institute, several conservatives squared off to discuss education reform. David Cleary, Majority Staff Director for the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee attached to the…
Fake Hate Crime Leads to Accusers Being Charged Themselves
Oh, the irony: A trio of black SUNY-Albany students, who alleged they had been attacked and subjected to racist slurs by a group of white men on a bus at the end of January, have…
Stanford Students Argue over Petition to Make Western Civ Classes Mandatory
Stanford University students are divided on whether there should be a requirement to take two Western Civilization courses at the institution before graduating. Photo by HarshLight
Creighton University Bars ROTC Student from Starting Conservative Club
From the College Fix: If Creighton University is “dedicated to the pursuit of truth in all its forms,” as its mission statement says, it is poorly conveying those values with respect to an ROTC student…
Missouri Candidates Promise to Clean House after Mizzou Football Protests, Melissa Click’s Misdemeanor Assault
The issues surrounding the University of Missouri have become a focus in the political campaigns in Missouri, but why shouldn’t they? Photo by cindyt7070
Millennial Protesters Aren’t Well-Read
How do student protestors today differ from their predecessors back in the 1960s? The latter were more well-read. “This is a post-literacy generation,” Peter Wood of the National Association of Scholars (NAS) said recently at…
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VIDEO: Black Lives Matter Pro-Life Effort Angers Activists
Oh, the irony? Posters that used the #BlackLivesMatter slogan to tout a pro-life message at Gettysburg College and stats highlighting the high abortion rate among black women has prompted a massive backlash at the private…
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WATCH: Violence Erupts as Protesters Mob UCLA Theater before Conservative Speaker’s Visit
Watch the video for yourself and think, do American Millennials understand free speech?