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Professors Work Less Than You Think—and Students Pay the Price

One of America’s most perceptive and productive scholars of our nation’s education system is Frederick M. Hess of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). He, along with an associate, Richard Keck, has produced a tremendous study, “Putting ‘Education’ Back in Higher Ed,” for AEI. A rarity these days: I agree with virtually every word they said. […]

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Three Things Colleges Don’t Want Us to Know

Universities are in the knowledge business, and the creation and dissemination of it is at the very core of what colleges do. Yet some forms of knowledge about higher education itself are either unknown, or hidden from the public. Why? Release of the information would prove embarrassing and possibly even costly to the school. 1. […]

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