Helping Hand or Unfair Advantage?
Do universities provide a level playing field for students with learning disabilities, or permit some to game the system?
Articles by George Leef
Leaping Nine Years in One Semester?
Remedial students who didn’t learn third grade grammar in twelve years aren’t likely to learn it in half a year.
Yes, You Too Can Be a Certified Diversity Advocate!
A UNC-Chapel Hill program wastes money pushing an ideological trinket.
Airy Rhetoric Versus Gritty Reality
In the PBS debate on the economic benefits of more college graduates, the facts spoke for themselves.
Do We Need More College Grads, or Better Ones?
A survey of employer opinions sheds some light—but not very much.
What’s the Latest Academic Fad?
A major university association proposes a globalization agenda long on costs but short on justification.
Why Are Conservatives Rare on College Faculties?
Seven professors (Munger, Bean, Folsom, Bauerlein, Grabar, Anderson, Bertonneau) comment on a controversial theory.
Justice O’Connor Rethinks Her Grutter Decision
But will a future Court pay any more attention to evidence about diversity than hers did?
“Higher” Education Has Been “Lowered”
A new book by an unconventional sociologist diagnoses the problem and prescribes the medicine.
Good News/Bad News on Education Schools
Education Secretary Duncan wants to improve them, but doesn’t really understand their problems.