For many parents, the prospect of sending their kids off to college can be daunting. If the price tag alone doesn’t scare them silly, there are more than enough stories … Continue reading “The Conservative Case for Community Colleges, Part I: To Parents”
In October, I attended the first-ever FIRE Faculty Conference. If you’re not familiar with FIRE (the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education), you should be—assuming you support free speech, open inquiry, … Continue reading “Notes from the Free Speech Underground”
Dual enrollment programs, which allow high school students to take college courses for college credit, have been getting some bad publicity lately. In 2013, the popular college watchdog site Minding … Continue reading “Let’s Not Throw the Dual Enrollment Baby Out with the Bathwater”
More than six years have passed since Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa rocked the academic world with their landmark book, Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses. Their study of more … Continue reading “Why College Graduates Still Can’t Think”