K-12 Education

Amid campus protests, universities worry about . . . fundraising

The recent rash of campus protests has caught the national eye, causing some to ask, 'What exactly are students taught in college today?' and 'What are senior university administrators doing to enforce—or not enforce—rigorous instruction, the instruction needed to ensure that American college graduates are able to survive in the intensely competitive, 21st-century world marketplace?'

December 29, 2015

Higher Education

Explaining the college affordability crisis — by blaming its victims

The more nuanced truth regarding the relationship between funding and tuition is that there have been mild decreases in legislative funding that have been met by comparatively wild increases in university prices and spending.

December 22, 2015

Higher Education

More U.S. colleges poised to go bankrupt, according to three new studies

Moody’s found that the percentage of schools suffering from three-year growth rates under 2% has quintupled, to 50%, in the last eight years.

November 28, 2015

Higher Education

Who can save college campuses from themselves?

The unabashed campus intolerance on display of late could turn out to be the jolt that was needed to restore intellectual freedom and, with it, rigorous education.

November 23, 2015

Economy

Will 27 states rain on EPA’s parade?

EPA found itself forced to take this tack because the agency itself admits that, under current law, it lacks the authority to impose the regimen that it is asking states to adopt.

November 10, 2015

Higher Education

New report: What do college students learn? Answer: Too little, too often

Fundamental subjects like U.S. government, U.S. history, literature, mathematics, and economics 'have become mere options on far too many campuses.' 

October 31, 2015

Higher Education

Disconnect: American higher education versus the American people

College is not a commodity. So understood, college is not for everybody.

October 25, 2015

Higher Education

Finally, bipartisan agreement on why college is so expensive

Before the bankruptcy notices begin to arrive at their doors, many American colleges and universities need to look at where they can cut excess spending and pass these savings on to their students and faculty.

September 30, 2015

Local Government

Chilling testimony on the Clean Power Plan

While the Clean Power Plan will require a massive tax increase and regressive consumer rate hikes, it simultaneously will reduce the number of those employed and thus able to shoulder the new tax burden. 

September 23, 2015

Higher Education

Free to learn? Think again: Campus censorship on the rise

But the first casualty has already been tallied—the freedom to learn.

September 15, 2015

Higher Education

Higher education reform is reliant on government bodies

We know from the Collegiate Learning Assessment that 36 percent of college students across the country, after four years in education, show little to no increase in critical thinking or complex reading and writing skills.

September 11, 2015

Higher Education

Higher education’s faulty economics: How we got here

This means that, of all the students who enroll in college, only 32 percent succeed in acquiring both a degree and the knowledge that a degree is meant to signify.

August 29, 2015