The University of Chicago appears intent on shaking up the world once more. But this time it aims not at a particular intellectual discovery but rather at preserving the very conditions of discovery itself: the freedom of the mind.
Mark Meckler makes a compelling case for convening an Article V Convention of States to rein in the federal government’s excesses. Meckler is the president of Citizens for Self-Governance, which founded the Convention of States Project.
If the College Board has its way, this country’s core principles of political and religious liberty, limited government, and free enterprise likely won’t even make it to childhood. They will be strangled in their cradles, courtesy of those to whom we’ve entrusted the education of our children.
Free debate is increasingly stifled on campus due to the demands of political correctness
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drop, state lawmakers have threated to cut the school’s funding, while nearly $2 million in donor pledges have been rescinded.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.