Faculty Lounge Taxpayers Hurt by Tax-Exempt Endowments Spencer Irvine April 13, 2015 As the Chronicle of Higher Education reported: “Most of the benefits, they say, result because endowments are exempt from capital-gains…
Perspectives Head Start Still Unfinished Malcolm A. Kline Try as they might, when proponents of early federally funded pre-school education ala Head Start try to make the case…
Faculty Lounge For-Profit Online College will Close Spencer Irvine April 12, 2015 Jones International University, based in Colorado since its inception in 1993, will close its doors. From 2011 to 2014, reports…
Perspectives Charter Schools in Blue States: It Works Malcolm A. Kline More evidence indicates that school choice works, even in so-called blue states. The Boston-based Pioneer Institute undertook a study of…
Perspectives The Left Protests Common Core Malcolm A. Kline April 7, 2015 Opposition to the Common Core education reforms embraced by the Obama Administration is growing, and not just on the political…
Events, Perspectives Colleges Eliminating Self-Esteem Courses Malcolm A. Kline April 4, 2015 Something that should give would-be education reformers pause but probably won’t: when ephemeral education fads finally come in for much-needed…
Faculty Lounge University of Phoenix sees Enrollment Drop 14% Spencer Irvine March 31, 2015 Uh oh, is this the beginning of the end for for-profit colleges and their profit model? A 14% drop in…
Perspectives After School Programs a Waste of Money Spencer Irvine It seems like the $1.2 billion spent for America’s after school programs was a waste of money. At least that’s…
Perspectives Scott Walker Leads GOP on Education Malcolm A. Kline March 30, 2015 Whatever his merits or demerits, the actual front-runner for the 2016 GOP presidential nomination continues to show how Republican candidates,…
Guest Articles Happy Holidaze, from New York City Tony Perkins March 24, 2015 In New York City schools, kids are learning Rs: reading, writing, and Ramadan. Thanks to the far-Left priorities of Mayor…
Faculty Lounge Professor Apologizes for Mocking the GOP’s Iran Letter to Obama Spencer Irvine An instructional assistant professor at the University of Houston, Cyrus Contractor, apologized for sending a mock letter of the GOP’s…
Faculty Lounge $1.2 Billion Afterschool Program just doesn’t work, Study Finds Spencer Irvine March 23, 2015 More government waste, and yet we keep spending money on wasteful programs that don’t help. In this case, this afterschool…
