If we hope to preserve liberty as well as equality, we should take seriously Lincoln’s admonition and restore required study of the Declaration and Constitution at all levels of schooling—not simply in Louisiana, but nationwide.
American workers continue to suffer from a sluggish economy.
'40 percent of millennials' today approve of censorship, far more than Gen Xers (27 percent), Boomers (24 percent), and Silents (12 percent).
On top of this enrollment drop, state lawmakers have threated to cut the school’s funding, while nearly $2 million in donor pledges have been rescinded. I, for one, hoped that the situation at Mizzou would restore sanity on our college campuses. Other universities might see the writing on the wall and get back to the real business of higher education.
Moreover, the Constitution crafted at the Philadelphia Convention is among the greatest, if not the greatest, governing document produced in history. If it was the child of a 'runaway convention,' then, given the crisis of our overreaching federal government, one is inclined to suggest that we have another.
From 1974-75 to 2012-13, tuition fees nationwide rose 138 percent in constant dollars at public four-year universities receiving state appropriations and nearly the same - 131 percent - at private universities getting little or no appropriations.
No surprise, another study finds that 27.3 percent of student borrowers are now in default on their loans.
Information technology has made the world new, and the new world has brought with it a new education-delivery system: online learning.
Thirty-six percent of students nationwide show little or no increase in their fundamental academic skills after four years invested in college.
And with greater misunderstanding usually comes heightened hostility. The new American Apartheid is upon us, courtesy of American education.
Professor Click was fired by the UM Board of Curators last Thursday. But it wasn't really the board that did her in. It was free markets — prospective students, their parents, donors, and alumni — expressing their displeasure with their checkbooks.
A recent Gallup nationwide poll, which asked respondents to choose among big government, big labor and big business, found that 69% of those surveyed identified big government as the 'biggest threat to America’s future.'