Education (higher)
Wednesday, May 6, 2009Academic Freedom Does Not Justify FraudBy John LaPlanteFiled As: Education (higher)George Leef on the ouster of Ward Churchill from the University of Colorado, and subsequent verdict in his behalf:
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Wednesday, March 4, 2009Without Government Backstop, Private Colleges EconomizeFiled As: Education (higher)Public colleges and universities may be able to latch on to some cash in the bloated "stimulus" bill, but private institutions are responding to declining endowments by examining programs and getting rid of non-essential ones. So says the more »»
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Sunday, November 30, 2008Getting Critical about "Critical Thinking"By John LaPlanteFiled As: Education (higher)One of the cliches in education these days is the need to teach students to engage in "critical thinking." Stephen Zelnick, who teaches at Temple University, writes in an article for the John William Pope Center that once you give it a closer look, programs and classes that promote ... more »»
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Wednesday, November 26, 2008Universities Save Money With Technology, but Hike TuitionFiled As: Education (higher)New technologies can save colleges and universities a lot of money. Are students seeing those savings? Not exactly, says Kevin Carey, of the group Education Sector. One reason: There are a lot of internal subsidies in a ... more »»
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Saturday, November 8, 2008Expand Vouchers for CollegeBy John LaPlanteFiled As: Education (higher)From the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs: "When one considers that the purpose of higher education funding is to help Oklahoma's students learn so that they may become more productive, creative, ... more »»
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Wednesday, November 5, 2008The Dropout Problem ... in CollegeBy John LaPlanteFiled As: Education (higher)The high-school dropout problem is fairly well known. Less publicized is the fact that even fewer students who start college finish it. The American Enterprise Institute has the details.
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Friday, October 3, 2008How Do Schools Spend Your Money?Filed As: Education (higher)If you'd like to know how the local school district spends your money, you're in luck if you live in Georgia The Georgia Public Policy foundation has a web site that "tracks, down to the penny, more than $14 billion in spending." The ... more »»
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Wednesday, August 27, 2008Is College Worth the Cost?By John LaPlanteFiled As: Education (higher)Walter E. Williams asks whether college is worth the cost, given the unprepared nature of many of today's students. Close to half (45%) of college freshmen never graduate; only a quarter of students who took the ACT ... more »»
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Friday, August 22, 2008Are Adjunct Faculty Bad for College Students?By John LaPlanteFiled As: Education (higher)The John William Pope Center look at a recent article in the Chronicle of Higher Education and concludes that adjunct faculty can be good for students and universities: "it’s likely that cost-benefit ... more »»
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Thursday, August 21, 2008College for All? Perhaps NotBy John LaPlanteFiled As: Education (higher)Writing for the John William Pope Center, George Leef argues that not every child should strive for college. Leef bases his remarks on a new book by Charles Murray, who says we are "asking too much from ... more »»
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