Texas universities-and American universities generally-falter at civic education. To correct this, Texas should restore the intentions undergirding its 1955 law requiring all public college and university students to complete two American history courses.
Higher Education
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...
January 22, 2026