By Jeff Jacoby (Archive) · Monday, April 30, 2012 If insanity is doing the same thing again and again but expecting a different outcome, then the federal government’s strategy for keeping higher education affordable is crazier than Norman Bates. For decades, American politicians have waxed passionate on the need to put college within every family’s [...]

Apr 26, 2012 – WSJ By DAVID WESSEL And STEPHANIE BANCHERO Throughout American history, almost every generation has had substantially more education than that of its parents. That is no longer true. When baby boomers born in 1955 reached age 30, they had about two years more schooling than their parents, according to Harvard University [...]

Student-loan campaign gimmick panders for youth votes By Emily Miller The Washington Times Tuesday, April 24, 2012 President Obama hit the campaign trail on Tuesday to win back the vote from disaffected 20-somethings who have seen neither hope nor change during his term of office. Taxpayers are footing the bill for a three-state college tour [...]

Apr 23, 2012 – By HOPE YEN AP WASHINGTON (AP) — The college class of 2012 is in for a rude welcome to the world of work. A weak labor market already has left half of young college graduates either jobless or underemployed in positions that don’t fully use their skills and knowledge. Young adults [...]

By Kathleen Foster Published April 12, 2012 FoxNews.com A new report finds that the United States’ education system is putting the country’s national security at risk. The independent study, sponsored by The Council on Foreign Relations, finds K-12 school systems across the country are failing to adequately prepare kids to grow up and protect the [...]

By Larry Elder (Archive) · Thursday, April 12, 2012 “I don’t know any polite way of putting this — but he’s lying,” said professor John Ellis, president of the National Association of Scholars’ California division. Ellis was reacting to a critic’s characterization of the NAS’s damning report, “A Crisis of Competence: The Corrupting Effect of [...]

By Arnold Ahlert (Archive) · Wednesday, April 11, 2012 Few people more desperate than desperate progressives. And there are few things more despicable than desperate progressives attempting to impose their worldview on impressionable children, using the public school system as their vehicle of choice. Two stories, from NYC and Bellingham, MA, vividly illustrate the depths [...]

Apr 8, 2012 – By Daniel Golden Michigan State University President Lou Anna K. Simon contacted the Central Intelligence Agency in late 2009 with an urgent question. The school’s campus in Dubai needed a bailout and an unlikely savior had stepped forward: a Dubai-based company that offered to provide money and students. Simon was tempted. [...]

By Michael Barone (Archive) · Thursday, April 5, 2012 How many times have you heard Barack Obama talk about “investing” in education? Quite a few, if you’ve been listening to the president at all. In fact, Americans have been investing more and more in education over the years, led by presidents Democratic and Republican. But [...]

April 4, 2012 By Eileen F. Toplansky The following represent the swirling conversations I hear as I travel to various colleges where I am an adjunct instructor. ** I was hurrying to my classroom when I overheard the following.  A female professor smilingly says to a student that she looks quite lovely in that new [...]