Higher Education
Sorry, but ‘college is too expensive’ is not a ‘myth’
Seventy-five percent of respondents declared college simply unaffordable.
July 19, 2015
Higher Education
Should we celebrate the Fourth of July anymore?
We could come again to understand why the future of our democracy depends on properly celebrating the Fourth of July.
July 4, 2015
Local Government
Take the marriage issue away from SCOTUS
This is not their fault. U.S. Department of Education statistics show that, today, roughly two out of every three college students graduate without ever having taken even one course in American government.
July 2, 2015
Local Government
Obergefell in the Lone Star State
In doing so, the Court has failed in its fundamental responsibility to interpret the Constitution in an honest, nonpartisan manner.
June 30, 2015
Higher Education
Leftist Professors: We Have Met The Enemy, And He Is Us
How have universities, whose defining mission requires that students examine some thoughts and projects that might prove to be unsettling, become such havens of monochrome thinking?
June 15, 2015
Higher Education
The U.S. Senate pushes to give universities more ‘skin in the game’
...there are today roughly seven million borrowers who are in default on their student loans, which total approximately $99 billion. A study by the New America Foundation finds that the average amount of each defaulted loan is $14,000...
May 31, 2015
Other
Rising resistance to EPA’s Clean Power Plan
Those alarmed over growing federal encroachment on the states and their citizens found a plethora of reasons to condemn Chief Justice John Roberts's 2012 opinion upholding Obamacare. Less noticed was Roberts's practical roadmap for future state resistance to federal overreach.
May 20, 2015
Higher Education
The future of an illusion: The higher-ed ‘finding cuts’ myth
One can only hope that the evidence provided by Campos, Ginsberg, and others will drive a stake through the heart of the 'funding-cuts-made-us-raise-tuitions' myth. But don’t count on that happening just yet.
May 11, 2015
Higher Education
To STEM or not to STEM? That is not the question
Until our academic culture embraces again what is truly higher in higher education—our capacity to discover Truth—expect still more exoduses from the liberal arts, regardless of how much attention STEM studies receive.
April 30, 2015
Local Government
Testimony: Bringing States Together to Protect the Border
"Testimony: Bringing States Together to Protect the Border" contains Center for Tenth Amendment Action Director Dr. Tom Lindsay's testimony before the Senate Committee on State Affairs in support of Senate Bill 1252.
April 20, 2015
Local Government
Testimony: Ensuring State Oversight of Federal Funds
"Testimony: Ensuring State Oversight of Federal Funds" contains Center for Tenth Amendment Action Director Dr. Tom Lindsay's testimony before the House Select Committee on budget transparency and reform in support of House Bill 86.
April 15, 2015
Energy & Environment
2015 Veritas – Issue 1
A publication of the Texas Public Policy Foundation
April 9, 2015