Education

Society’s greatest concern, claim the so-called humanitarians, is our children–who are suffering from inadequate nutrition, shelter and health care. Yet these same “humanitarians” are silent about the scourge destroying a child’s mind–his textbooks.

Although Caplan thinks college is mostly a scam, he says there’s one type of person who definitely benefits — professors like him.

Unless the cycle of promoting and nursing imaginary grievances is ended, diversity bureaucracies will take over our colleges and universities, supplanting altogether the goal of higher education.

The fact that unscrupulous parents paid millions for special favors from college administrators to enroll their children pales in comparison to the poor educational outcomes, not to mention the gross indoctrination of young people by leftist professors.

Why do U.S. students persistently score lower than students from other nations on international tests?

Instead of forcing banks out of the student loan business, we should get government out of it.

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Brainwashing our youngsters is a serious matter. The people responsible for the Department of Education’s proposal ought to be summarily fired.

I’m wondering when the black community will demand an end to an educational environment that condemns so many youngsters to mediocrity.

Education bureaucrats love working in a monopoly where they are basically guaranteed jobs.

Spending four or more years in a politically correct college and accumulating tens of thousands of dollars in debt is not the only road to a successful life.

As long as universities continue to misrepresent how they use philanthropic gifts, philanthropists will remain wary of the high potential for misuse that accompanies large donations.

What is the price tag for “free” college and the elimination of college debt?

What has been allowed to happen to cripple black academic excellence?

America, a country where even poor people live longer and better lives than almost anyone in history, has become a place where spoiled children paying $60,000 tuition consider themselves “victims.”

Three major problems faced by America’s colleges and universities — and their solutions.

The 1215 Magna Carta limited the power of central government and it forced a reigning monarch to grant his English subjects rights. It laid the foundations for limited constitutional governments, an idea offensive to most leftists.

Although it may be difficult today for American socialist students to study abroad in places like Cuba or North Korea, they could lobby U.S. officials to facilitate it.

The first step toward any solution is for the American people to be aware of academic fraud that occurs at every level of education. Federal prosecutors have charged more than 50 people involved in cheating and bribery in order to get their children admitted to some...

How can a college criticize the hoaxers but revere ridiculous journals that publish nonsense? The real “hoax” is on students who pay thousands of dollars for useless degrees in fields that end in “studies.”

Most students have not been exposed before to the concept of laissez-faire capitalism and the central role the protection of individual rights play in it.