Perspectives

Now, after lauding Common Core’s benefits, Common Core supporters are scrambling to justify the oft-maligned education standards. At the Thomas…

When Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker unveiled his higher education reforms for the state university system, the reaction from that quarter…

It’s not hard to find out who sets the terms of debate and parameters of discussion concerning the Middle East…

Universities may want to adopt a basic rule to avoid mission creep: When you have failed in your basic task,…

Reports that Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker did not graduate from college have provoked a stream of broadsides, most of them…

On this President’s Day, let’s recall the words of Abraham Lincoln in his Gettysburg Address: “Four score and seven years…

At least one economist gets off campus frequently enough to see what the real economy looks like and, naturally, he’s…

Charter school growth has exploded over the last two decades and so have the waiting lists to get in them….

An academic tries to make the case that our peripatetic president’s business trips abroad do not constitute an “apology tour,”…

We think we’ve found the closest thing you will ever see to a scholarly defense of George W. Bush. “Let…

Proving once again that tenure offers little protection to more conservative scholars, Marquette’s president recently fired a tenured professor who…

The governor of Wisconsin has provoked the ire of the higher education establishment in the state by suggesting that professors…