Education (higher)
Wednesday, December 5, 2007University, Meet Charter SchoolFiled As: Education (higher), Education (k-12)Terry Stoops, of the John Locke Foundation, suggests that the University of North Carolina start running some charter schools on its campuses. The logic: the university can update its teacher training program and charter schools need teachers. Stoops, an education policy analyst for the ... more »»
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Tuesday, December 4, 2007College Gets More ExpensiveFiled As: Education (higher)Why is college getting more and more expensive--at a rate exceeding the general inflation rate? Steve Bowen, of the Maine Heritage Policy Center , offers some thoughts and talks about the scene in Maine.
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Tuesday, November 27, 2007Does Spending on College Boost State Economies?Filed As: Education (higher)Does state government spending on higher education result in economic prosperity down the road? Perhaps. But Richard Vedder suggests "not necessarily." He writes that "the more states spend on higher education, the lower ... more »»
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Monday, November 5, 2007Colordblind Policies At One YearFiled As: Education (higher)Last year Michigan voters approved a measure to eliminate the use of race in determining university The Detroit News has looked at what has happened since, and what has happened in the state is ... more »»
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Thursday, October 11, 2007Ed Official: More Money NOT RequiredFiled As: Education (higher)Here's a man-bites-dog story: an expert in higher education says that increasing the graduation rates of a state's population does not require spending more money. The Northwest Arkansas Times reports on a legislative task force that ... more »»
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Tuesday, September 4, 2007Great Moments in Public EducationFiled As: Education (higher), Education (k-12)The Denver Post reports that half of all incoming students at Metropolitan State University would not meet entrance requirements set to be imposed in the fall of 2008. So what did lawmakers do? Embark on a crash course to reform education at the ... more »»
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Monday, July 23, 2007Shakespeare No, Sex YesWhat's going on in the English department? Filed As: Education (higher)While there is much commendable about the American university system, it has qualities that, well, make you wonder what's going on. The American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA) reported in May that English departments across the land have some strange priorities. Or at least that's ... more »»
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Tuesday, April 3, 2007What Next? A Trademark for the Jefferson Memorial?Filed As: Education (higher), General, PrivatizationThe trademark “rights” held by government universities is exemplar of Orwell’s some animals being more equal than others, and makes a case for their outright privatization. The March 23-25, 2007 USA Today published “more »»
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Thursday, March 8, 2007Ratcheting Up College TuitionWisconsin to be Punished for (Relative) Frugality? Filed As: Education (higher)Minnesota and Wisconsin have an agreement for tuition reciprocity. When Minnesotans attend (most) public universities in Wisconsin, they don't pay out-of-state tuition; they pay whatever they would pay in Minnesota. Wisconsinites get a similar deal in Minnesota. Wisconsin, as it turns out, ... more »»
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Friday, February 16, 2007Everything You Should Have Learned in College But Didn'tFiled As: Education (higher), EventsI attended an allegedly superior private college for my undergraduate schooling. But my education in the value of free peoples and free markets was woefully inadequate, if not missing entirely. Students who attend the University of North Carolina (UNC) may have the same plight, but they can receive ... more »»
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