Published January 28, 2012 Associated Press WASHINGTON –  Fuzzy math, Illinois State University’s president called it. “Political theater of the worst sort,” said the University of Washington’s head.  President Obama’s new plan to force colleges and universities to contain tuition or face losing federal dollars is raising alarm among education leaders who worry about the [...]

The sooner the higher-education bubble bursts, the better. Jan 26, 2012 WSJ By JAMES TARANTO In the Chronicle of Higher Education, economist Richard Vedder notes a new development in the education marketplace that should make many of his fellow academics nervous: The announcement of agreements between Burck Smith’s StraighterLine and the Education Testing Service (ETS) [...]

By Wayne Allen Root Published January 26, 2012 FoxNews.com America is in shambles from sea to shining sea. Unemployment is nearly at Great Depression levels. The real estate is still week and near collapse. And, of course, our U.S. Triple A credit rating is gone for the first time in history. But this is National [...]

By Thomas Sowell (Archive) · Wednesday, January 25, 2012 This may be the golden age of presumptuous ignorance. The most recent demonstrations of that are the Occupy Wall Street mobs. It is doubtful how many of these semi-literate sloganizers could tell the difference between a stock and a bond. Yet there they are, mouthing off [...]

By Walter E. Williams (Archive) · Wednesday, January 25, 2012 Larry Sand’s article “No Wonder Johnny (Still) Can’t Read” — written for The John William Pope Center for Higher Education Policy, based in Raleigh, N.C. — blames schools of education for the decline in America’s education. Education professors drum into students that they should not [...]

By Linda Chavez (Archive) · Friday, January 20, 2012 When President Obama gives his state of the union address next week, you can count on his making a big pitch for education. No president in recent memory has failed to tout expanded educational opportunity as the panacea for all that ails us — and Obama [...]

By Thomas Sowell (Archive) · Wednesday, January 18, 2012 One of the ways of trying to reduce the vast disparities in economic success, which are common in countries around the world, is by making higher education more widely available, even for people without the money to pay for it. This can be both a generous [...]

January 15, 2012 By Janet Tassel It was the first week in October in Newton, an upscale suburb of Boston, and Tony Pagliuso’s daughter, a sophomore at Newton South High School, was visibly disturbed. When Tony asked her the problem, she showed him a passage from the chapter she was assigned in her World History [...]

January 6, 2012 By Cindy Simpson The obstacles in Barack Obama’s path to the presidency have been overcome, or covered over.  Rather than merely avoiding the contentious question of Obama’s “natural born” eligibility, America’s academic establishment has muffled discussion on the inextricably related issue of citizenship law in our country, in the greater context of [...]

By Matt Smith, CNN updated 7:45 PM EST, Wed December 28, 2011 (CNN) — Public schools in Tucson, Arizona, face millions of dollars in penalties after a ruling that the district’s Mexican-American studies program violates state law. An administrative law judge found the program’s curriculum was teaching Latino history and culture “in a biased, political, [...]