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August 29, 2011

What to Do About Ed Schools?

George Leef

In today’s Pope Center piece, I write about a new AEI paper reporting what has been widely known for a long time: education schools take in weak students and give them high grades. The author......

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August 29, 2011

Coming Student Loan Crisis: Crony Capitalism + Egalitarian Liberalism

Jonathan Bean

Take the notion that every child deserves to attend college (egalitarian liberalism) and add crony capitalism (banks with the power to squeeze you despite bankruptcy (i.e., kind of like the IRS!). T......

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August 29, 2011

Video: Andrew Ferguson on the College Admissions Circus

"The entire edifice of higher education now has a huge propaganda machine at its heart, relentlessly pounding home the idea that everybody should go to college." - Andrew Ferguson, father of a colle......

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August 29, 2011

Answering the Critics of Online Education

Douglas Campbell

The online classroom is different from, not inferior to, the traditional classroom, argue two faculty members of an online university.

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August 26, 2011

A Dispute Over Our Faculty Workload Study

George Leef

In today’s Pope Center piece, the provost at UNC-Asheville takes issue with the findings in our report on faculty workloads. She argues that they do more than we said they did. Author Jay Scha......

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