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February 16, 2011

Overselling Higher Education Gives Us Credential Inflation

George Leef

Today's Wall Street Journal published George Leef's letter: Soon You Will Need a Master's Degree to Wash Dishes Eric Felten's excellent "Now College Is the Break" (Postmodern Times......

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February 16, 2011

Don't Miss: "A Conversation with Peter Wood" on February 23

Next Wednesday NAS president Peter Wood will speak in New York City about anger in America now, drawing on his book A Bee in the Mouth. Hosted by the Institute for American Values, the event is free......

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February 15, 2011

Debunking the Idea that Science Discriminates Against Women

George Leef

Christina Hoff Sommers has a sharp article on NRO, debunking the idea that science discriminates against women. 

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February 15, 2011

RE: What Can We Do About Adrift Students?

George Leef

Jason Fertig has written a thought-provoking piece for NAS on the problem identified by Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa in Academically Adrift. He quotes from their conclusion.

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February 15, 2011

They're Mad as Hell: Grad Students Face Job Market

Jonathan Bean

As the academic job market worsens (was it ever good?), graduate students are angry, according to an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education. Don't expect a protest march in the streets bur......

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