Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published on Real Clear Education on May 01, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. Early in my tenure at the education policy organization I founded, we barely had any money. No money meant no lobbyist, which left […]
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Americans always have drawn upon the history and the greatest books of Western civilization to inspire them to their greatest words and deeds. Abraham Lincoln in the Gettysburg Address echoed the medieval church reformer John Wycliffe when he spoke of government of the people, for the people and by the people. George Patton became the […]
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More and more Americans are going on to post–high school education, encouraged to do so by both governments and nonprofit organizations. According to the U.S. Department of Education, for example, “In today’s world, college is not a luxury that only some Americans can afford to enjoy; it is an economic, civic, and personal necessity for […]
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