…waters of survival. When either sex unilaterally wins, both sexes lose. The family boat sinks. We don’t need a women’s movement demonizing men, nor a men’s movement demonizing women. We…

…the human experience, to learn what we don’t know and to seek the truth however illusory it may be. That is a common conversation worth having and from my point…

…he told PBS News, “…the for-profits do a much better job of recruiting and advertising than the nonprofits do. Let’s face it: The nonprofits don’t make a profit, so they’re…

…loan payments generally don’t need to be income-based because they have collateral that can be repossessed if the borrower stops making payments. Since an education is intangible and can’t be…

…when we abstract from or deny the personal element. Scientists who know they’re abstracting are alive to the limits of what we can know through their method. Scientists who don’t…

…young people to start out without loads of debt, even if they don’t consider the implications of making higher payments years down the line. And as much as the plan…

…“I am having school at the moment (I could put it on hold, but I don’t want to lose my concentration), can I call you back?” The “instructor” for those…

…apprenticeships. Stephens started the self-directed learning organization UnCollege and wrote Hacking Your Education, whose subtitle instructs its readers to “ditch the lectures, save tens of thousands, and learn more than…

…should focus on inquiry-based learning, undergraduate research, capstone courses, internships, and so forth. What is learned is less important than how it’s learned. The focus on engagement is one way…

…Sinhalese Sri Lankan-American students and Tamil Sri Lankan-American students. Don’t we need to find out? And don’t forget the possibility of sub-dividing those groups to find still more inequalities. After…

…poor families. Because they don’t, the student bodies at those prestigious institutions are disproportionately composed of students from rich families who can pay the lofty tuitions the schools charge. As…

…or no actual interest in getting a good product. When government officials buy research, they don’t lose anything if the work turns out to be fraudulent, foolish, or both. Similarly,…

…sexual assault the right to counsel in campus disciplinary proceedings, Klawunn fumed, “We don’t want attorneys to start running the University process.” Fairness, it seems, takes a back seat to…

…these sources–indeed, FIRE only knows of three that don’t, out of the thousands of American colleges: Hillsdale College, Grove City College, and the College of the Ozarks. (There are probably…

…(especially the faculty) can thwart changes they don’t like. But if for-profit higher-ed is so good, why the perception that it is an ugly aberration in the lovely realm of…

…of donor intention as well: “Other possible donors want to see if this actually adds something serious that is missing from the intellectual spectrum.” Donor intention is a complicated matter….

…presidents don’t air their views more often on the “big issues.” His idea of an estimable college leader is someone like Lee Bollinger of Columbia (because he “spearheaded the fight…

…don’t know about history, writing, literature, philosophy, and dozens of other subjects is traceable in no small part to the swapping out of the proper content of courses for ideologically-driven…

…in the whole discussion, an us vs. them set-up dividing the NAS authors from historians per se. It implies, “WE are the historians, YOU are the outsiders who don’t understand…

…Of course, most 18-year-olds don’t care much about politics–only 34.5 percent of them agreed that “Keeping up to date with political affairs” is important–and they have acquired their opinions mainly…

…understanding of what choice could include. Their major assumption seems to have been that most teachers don’t expect enough of all their students (“the soft bigotry of low expectations”). However,…

…explore that which interests them and affects society at large. Not only do you not know anything about my research and clearly nothing about Andover, you don’t know anything about…

…we don’t want the Course of Study or any formal institutional document to communicate to our students that we think only Shakespeare, Sophocles, Homer and Chaucer are the most valuable…

…conservative professors, so all the professors don’t think the way I do.” Obviously, Professor Zimmerman, a professor of history and education at NYU, is something of an anomaly. On the…

…life. Clichés about fallen barriers are increasingly meaningless; symbols don’t make for coherent policies.” In the 19th Century, of course, and well into the early career of Strom Thurmond white…

…more fun: “Sure we can give dem Les time and no prublem in wat we get on news stories  frum graduates students frum colleges. Dey don’t need no stinkin mor…

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