Thomas Lindsay: The fact that we are failing to educate 36 percent of our students should give us pause before we rush to graduation rate-focused outcomes-based funding.
Higher Education
Yale Finally Says the Quiet Part Out Loud
Yale’s Committee on “Trust in Higher Education” just released what higher-education reformers have to view as a remarkable document. It addresses the ongoing erosion of public trust in America’s universities. In doing so, it owns up to the self-censorship, extreme faculty political homogeneity, grade hyperinflation, administrative bloat, and the opaqueness of “holistic” admissions. For an...
April 30, 2026