Correlation, Not Causation
…like the famous “bridge to nowhere” do. The best education policy: Leave it to individual choice in a free market. (Editor’s note: George Leef is a regular contributor to Forbes.com.)…
…like the famous “bridge to nowhere” do. The best education policy: Leave it to individual choice in a free market. (Editor’s note: George Leef is a regular contributor to Forbes.com.)…
…my naiveté reveals how far we have fallen where college-student effort is concerned. According to a recent survey by the higher-ed-planning firm Intelligent.com, 64 percent of traditional undergraduates say they…
…will appear later this year. University leaders have been silent about this development, but according to Doug Lederman, “the foundation’s sorting…sends some institutions into fits of anger or excitement over…
…accelerated. Free speech is besieged, the rule of law is but a memory, and the education system is far more concerned with correct ideology than with knowledge and skills. Does…
(Editor’s note: This article was published on September 17, 2012, by Forbes.com.) Each year, the federal government spends billions of dollars on tuition tax credits to encourage more students to…
Right now, parents who are preparing to send a child off to college are perusing Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble. They’re looking for anything that can give them an edge—an…
…so—at least if higher education were properly liberal. “By ‘liberal education,’” he explained, “we mean an ordering and integrating of knowledge for the benefit of the free person—as contrasted with…
Today’s assault on intellectual excellence in the academy will eventually end. Hopefully, an investigation will then commence on its causes, and all the usual suspects will be rounded up. This…
(Editor’s note: This feature is adapted from an article that appeared on June 18, 2014, at Forbes.com, where George Leef, the Pope Center’s director of research, is a regular columnist.)…
Leftist-radical-turned-conservative-activist David Horowitz will be speaking in Raleigh and at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on Wednesday, Nov. 28. Horowitz, president of the Center for the Study…