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Vouchers and Low-Income: Reality Check
by Greg Forster – Have school vouchers moved away from their historic focus on low-income students? The political hacks at the Center on Education Policy think so. And… Read more
Enrollments tumble at for-profit colleges
By Paul Fain – For-profit colleges have had a rough year. Strengthened federal regulations, bad press and a slumping economy have led to steep declines in new student enrollments at… Read more
Annual report reveals online learning’s rapid rise
K-12 online and blended learning continued to grow rapidly across the country in 2011 as new consortia and single-district online education programs outstripped the continued expansion of more traditional eLearning… Read more
Policy Summit: U.S. Higher Education Should Focus More on Employability
by Jamaal Abdul-Alim – WASHINGTON, D.C. – The national push to get more students to complete college in the United States should be tied to making students employable… Read more
Penn State riot: If university can’t fire Joe Paterno, is something wrong?
Is the Penn State riot an acceptable response to Joe Paterno being fired? He was much more than a football coach, but some say the violent reaction points… Read more
The Civics Crisis
Sohrab Ahmari – Both reformers and the educational establishment should focus on what makes America great. Teaching America: The Case for Civic Education, edited by David Feith (Rowman & Littlefield,… Read more
Ed. Dept. uses law to investigate campus crimes
WASHINGTON—A federal law the Education Department is using to investigate whether Penn State failed to report incidents of sexual abuse on campus is the same one the department used to… Read more
College locker rooms go gender-neutral
Male, female, straight, gay, lesbian, transgender — labels don’t matter at Iowa’s Grinnell College. Students can share a dormitory room, bathroom, shower room or locker room with any… Read more
5 catchiest (and most annoying) reform phrases
By Roxanna Elden – Thre is a growing assumption that education reformers are anti-teacher and teachers are anti-reform. Disagreements between these groups have become so heated and so public recently… Read more
The Equality Racket
Pat Buchanan – Our mainstream media have discovered a new issue: inequality in America. The gap between the wealthiest 1 percent and the rest of the nation is… Read more
