American Higher Education: an Annual Report Card
Paraphrasing Dickens, “These are the best of schools, the worst of schools.” Higher education in America is to be both rightly praised and damned. It has both saints and sinners, angels and demons. If...
View ArticleThe Lucas Critique Visits Higher Ed
The idea of altering how colleges are funded is getting a lot of attention, as it should. But some ideas are getting more attention than they warrant– I’ll single out the idea of tying funding to...
View ArticleWhat to Make of the Claremont McKenna SAT Scandal
On Monday the New York Times broke the news that Claremont McKenna College has submitted falsified SAT data to publications that put out college rankings. While this is hardly the first time a school...
View ArticleDo Developments in Chile Presage What Is to Come in the US?
My CCAP colleague Michael Koslen alerted me to this blog post at InsideHigherEd by Andrés Bernasconi: Chile’s Ministry of Education has launched a web portal offering with unprecedented detail...
View ArticleHigher Education’s Increasing Disdain for Virtue
One of the major rationales for public subsidies of higher education is that colleges are supposed to make students more virtuous–better persons. We are told a college education strengthens awareness...
View ArticleRevising Teacher Education: Meaningful Change or Window Dressing?
One of the scandals about American higher education is its complicity in creating the mediocrity in our K-12 schools. American primary and secondary education students do so-so at best in standardized...
View ArticleU.S. Chamber of Commerce Issues Wake-up Call to Higher Ed
By: Andrew Smyser On June 19, the Institute for a Competitive Workforce (ICW), a branch of the United States Chamber of Commerce, released a report entitled “A State-by-State Report Card. This report...
View ArticleFive Constructive Ways to Change American Higher Education
Richard Vedder gave the following lecture at Dartmouth College as part of their Daniel Webster Project on October 14, 2014. My thanks to Dartmouth for inviting me to participate in the Daniel Webster...
View ArticleThe Inherent Difficulty of Measuring Teacher Quality
The primary purpose of colleges and universities is to educate their students, and it’s necessary for professors at these institutions to teach effectively. Evaluating the teaching quality of...
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The One Percent: The Corporatizion of American Higher Education
Co-authors Andrew Erwin and Marjorie Wood discovered student debt and low-wage faculty labor rose faster at state schools with the highest paid presidents than the national average. Moreover,...
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