Topic: Education

Favoritism Trumps Scholarship in Academic Hiring

– September 15, 2019

My friend’s letter captures the essential reason why higher education today provides students with relatively low value, i.e., high cost for the minimal skills created: many colleges and universities reward conformity instead of productivity, and collegiality over competition.

Education, History

How Twitter is Corrupting the History Profession

– August 29, 2019

Social media once held great promise as a means of facilitating scholarly exchange. Unfortunately, academics themselves are becoming some of its worst actors.

Books, Education

Want to End Book-Selling Scams? Stop Relying on Copyrights

– August 9, 2019

Outdated intellectual property (IP) laws severely restrict the production of books and material that should be easily accessible to the public.

Education

There’s a Growing Number of College Graduates Owing Nearly Half a Million Dollars

– August 8, 2019

As politicians continue to promise privileges in exchange for votes, by telling Americans they have a “right” to education, we forget to see this problem for what it is: the result of a lack of personal responsibility.

Education

Democrats Want to “Fix” Student-Loan Crisis by Exacerbating It

– July 17, 2019

With more student forgiveness and “free college” policies in-store, presidential candidates are sure to make a government-created mess a catastrophe.

Education

How a Leftist Echo Chamber Became the New Norm on Campus

– July 17, 2019

A new study of student attitudes about socialism and capitalism provides strong confirmation of the echo chamber effect taking hold in the humanities.

Education

How Universities Misuse Donor Dollars

– July 11, 2019

A philanthropist donated $5 million to create professorships in Austrian economics. The university used it to hire faculty in other fields.

Education

Here’s What Wrong With Bernie’s Plan to Eliminate Student Loan Debt

– June 28, 2019

If we want to get serious about the student loan problem, we should focus less on the point of repayment and more on the point of origination.

Education

Student Loan Forgiveness Is Bad Policy

– June 27, 2019

The benefits of higher education fall almost entirely on the recipient. So should the costs.

Education

What Rightward Shift in Higher Ed?

– June 25, 2019

A new Urban Institute report claims that conservative philanthropy has shifted higher education to the right in the past 50 years. The empirical evidence says otherwise.

Education

Like the Soviet Economy, American Higher Education Is Collapsing

– June 11, 2019

The question is not if, but when and how reforms will come.

Education

The Astonishing Mess of Academic Publishing

– June 7, 2019

Every step of academic publication is fraught with practices that would drive away the customer base of any other industry. Is there a better alternative?