Toward Strengthening Texas Public Higher…

December 13, 2012

Thomas K. Lindsay, Ph.D.

Tom K. Lindsay, Ph.D., is a distinguished senior fellow for Next Generation Texas at the Texas Public Policy Foundation. He has more than two decades’ experience in education management and instruction, including service as a dean, provost, and college president.

We face a twofold crisis in higher education: While tuition costs and student-loan debt skyrocket, our students far too often learn precious little of what they need to succeed as employees, citizens, and independent thinkers.

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The Horror: Texas Bans the Cultivation of Racial Resentment!

Texas “now controls what professors can teach.” So screams the latest edition of The Atlantic. In reality, its complaint that Texas has begun to police what its public universities may teach mistakes the recovery of reason for the suppression of it. It somehow sees in the state’s modest restraints on race and sex ideology a...

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Higher Education

UT-Austin Puts the “Core” Back in Core Curriculum

For decades, the American university has been drifting away from its most important purpose: giving students a common education in the knowledge and principles they need to become educated citizens. The core curriculum was supposed to provide that common ground. Instead, it became a collection of distribution requirements—a little History here, a little PoliSci there,...

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K-12 Education

Houston’s Fat Cat Superintendents: The Hidden Benefits How Some of Texas’s Highest-Paid Public Employees Are Systematically Underreporting Their Compensation

Exorbitant and hidden superintendent pay reflects a culture of self-enrichment that has no place in Texas public schools, diverts taxpayer dollars from students, and betrays the public trust. Key points: The Texas Education Agency (TEA) understates the total compensation for some of Texas’s highest-paid superintendents. Though they oversee fewer people, many superintendents have drawn a...

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