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The (college) kids are alright
By Stephen E. Whittaker – For three decades, I have taught rhetoric in a university honors program, so I see the academic cream of the crop. Many of my former… Read more
Time for a Medicaid-Education Grand Swap
Let Washington handle health care and let the states handle schools. BY LAMAR ALEXANDER Staring down steep tuition hikes, students at the University of California have taken to carrying picket… Read more
Move the minorities to the upper East Side
By John H. Jackson and Pedro Noguera If it takes a village to raise a child, the same village must share accountability when many children are educationally abandoned. In New… Read more
Texans: Must Keep STAAR/End-of-Course Tests on Schedule
by Donna Garner – During the last legislative session, Texas Rep. Dan Flynn authored a wrong-headed bill (HR 2491) to place a moratorium on the STAAR/End-of-Course tests. On two different… Read more
Is The President Being Honest About The “Student Loan Crisis?”
Austin Hill – Is President Obama right about a looming student loan debt crisis? It depends on how you define “crisis.” But there is a problem, and it is real…. Read more
College loan debt hobbles a generation of students
ADA, Ohio — Kelsey Griffith graduates today from Ohio Northern University. To start paying off her $120,000 in student debt, she is working two restaurant jobs and will soon give… Read more
The Dominoes of Cloward-Piven
By Frank Salvato In 1966, two Columbia University sociologists, Richard Andrew Cloward and Frances Fox Piven, collaborated on a theory to end poverty in the United States. This theory, today,… Read more
Solving the Student Loan Debt Problem
by Frank Fleming – The nonsense has to end. I have a great new idea: Let’s use the government to help give giant, unsecured loans to one of the dumbest… Read more
The Global Search for Education: In Search of Professionals – Part 2
The teaching profession stands at a crossroads. The United States has an opportunity to reform the entire profession and make teaching not only one of America’s most important professions but… Read more
Chronicle of Servile Education
by Harry Stein – While the firing of Naomi Schaefer Riley by the Chronicle of Higher Education is a disgrace, the greater shame is that it can’t be called a… Read more
