September 7, 2011

Cost Versus Enrollment Bubbles

Andrew Gillen

We should carefully consider why Americans

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September 6, 2011

The Global Warming Debate on Campus

George Leef

The trouble is, on most college campuses, there is no debate. Students hear over and over that it is "settled" and thus anyone who doubts that humans are responsible for potentially disastrous clima......

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September 6, 2011

Video: Richard Shavelson on How to Rate the Quality of an Education

Andy Nash

Richard Shavelson joins Andy Nash for a conversation on measurements and metrics in figuring out the quality of an education.

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September 3, 2011

Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: OF COURSE HE DID IT!

Glenn Ricketts

Peter Wood reviews a new scholarly compendium on the relationship beteen Thomas Jefferson and his slave, Sally Hemings. It's a controversial topic, of course, but I'm beginning to wonder if th......

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September 2, 2011

Disrupting the Textbook Machine

David Clemens

The higher education bubble was inflated by various pumps and gases:  expensive but useless degrees, an ideological straitjacket, grade inflation, administrative bloat, and proliferating progra......

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September 2, 2011

Collegiate Press Roundup

Glenn Ricketts

Student reporters get the Fall semester rolling with observations on the national debt crisis, same-sex marriage, the vocation of college journalists and how to spend your summer break.

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September 2, 2011

Too Much For Too Little

Peter Wood

NAS President Peter Wood offers observations on the diminishing value of a college degree.

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September 1, 2011

Marriage and Family in Western Civilization

William H. Young

William H. Young examines the present dysfunctional state of the family in light of its traditional role in Western Civilization.

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August 31, 2011

Mushrooming Syllabi

George Leef

Thomas Bertonneau discusses the reasons why course syllabi have been mushrooming over the years: students are less and less accustomed to academic work, more inclined to complain if things aren'......

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August 31, 2011

Unnumbered

Peter Wood

Peter Wood fears that a new proposal for improving science education will lead to even greater math illiteracy among high school graduates.

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In Memoriam: David Horowitz

We celebrate and remember the life of David Horowitz, a champion of intellectual freedom and truth-telling during a long era of lies, collective self-deception, and institutional malfea......