Nationwide, higher education enrollment has been trending down for several years. According to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, 2019 was the eighth straight year of decline, with an overall drop … Continue reading “How Colleges Can Survive the Coming Enrollment Crash”
The National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) rates teacher education programs on how well they teach different subjects such as science, social science, and content knowledge. As Shannon Watkins describes, … Continue reading “Did You Know? The Uneven Performance of UNC Education Schools”
A series of disasters face art colleges and the art departments of American universities. Their campuses are closing, their freshmen numbers are dwindling, and their graduates are struggling. Getting more … Continue reading “Politicized Art Schools Are Losing Students to the Atelier Movement”
Editor’s note: This article is an excerpt from Coming Home: Reclaiming America’s Conservative Soul (ISBN: 9781641770569), to be published by Encounter Books on May 14. The promise of higher education … Continue reading “From Indoctrination to Education: Salvaging the University”
If somebody wanted to fundamentally transform a society to its roots, where would he or she start? The most logical starting point would be education. And if there were one … Continue reading “Radically Transforming the Nation: Our Politicized Schools of Education”
Education schools have become one of the most politicized corners of academia, and The Politicization of University Schools of Education: The Long March through the Education Schools reveals the extent of … Continue reading “The Politicization of University Schools of Education: The Long March through the Education Schools”
Although the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s former chancellor, Carol Folt, will mostly be remembered for the numerous scandals and years-long protests on campus during her tenure, she … Continue reading “Arts Everywhere: Distracting from a UNC Scandal”
In higher education, the value of a liberal arts education has been frequently debated. Defenders on the left argue that it exposes students to coursework and teaches critical thinking skills … Continue reading “Fixing a Liberal Arts Education Requires a Standardized Curriculum”
It’s been a remarkable year for higher education. We ranked the most important events of 2018 in last week’s article. But now it’s time to look ahead. Here is what … Continue reading “What We Would Like to See in the New Year”
In 2015, Colorado School of Mines writing instructor Dr. Jon Leydens delivered a TED talk titled “engineering and social justice.” According to Leydens, in the mid-2000s students started asking him … Continue reading “The Rise of Engineering’s Social Justice Warriors”