Higher Education: Fund Learning, Not Buildings

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Kalese Hammonds

The only way to inject competition into the higher education marketplace is to force universities to compete for students’ money by putting state funds into the hands of students and letting them decide who earns the state’s money.

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Brandeis Is Doing Something About Grade Inflation. Will Texas Be Next?

This is a good-news, bad-news tale for American higher education. The good news: A top-tier university has finally taken serious aim at the epidemic of grade hyperinflation. The bad news: We have fallen so far that even elite institutions must now devise entirely new, parallel evaluation systems just to deliver what straightforward, principled grading should...

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Part 2: Projecting Winter Outage Risk Through 2030 As Texas approaches the five-year anniversary of Winter Storm Uri, the ERCOT grid faces growing vulnerability to winter power outages. This analysis projects that by 2030, the same type of storm that would cause approximately 12 hours of outages today could result in nearly 24 hours of...

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Texas A&M is Right to End Women and Gender Studies

Some professors at Texas A&M have issued a letter expressing outrage over the recent decision to eliminate the women’s and gender studies degree programs. Revving up the dramatics, faculty who run the program warn that the university is dismantling this degree track at a “moment of incendiary dispute across cultural, social, and political difference on...

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