Esam Sohail Mohammad writes for the Martin Center about the importance of community colleges staying true to their missions. While community colleges are known as a low-cost path to higher…
Rick Moran writes for PJMedia.com about a major challenge for American public schools. The public school system in America is in crisis — the worst crisis since the forced bussing…
Richard Vedder writes for the Martin Center about universities’ attachment to expensive construction projects. According to one recent estimate, American colleges in the last few years, in a period of…
The effects of coronavirus and the subsequent economic shutdown are causing ripple effects across America. Everything – from restaurants to gas stations to theme parks – has been affected by…
The N.C. Department of Public Instruction recently published a map of charter school enrollment relative to district schools. Charter enrollment (as a percentage of district school population) is higher in…
Last week, the N.C. Department of Public Instruction published the final enrollment numbers for the 2016-17 school year. Overall, there was a nearly 4,500-student or 0.3 percent year-to-year decrease in…
The WUNC headline is “Enrollment At NC Teaching Programs Inches Back Up,” so one may have the impression that gains in UNC education school enrollment were trivial. That is not…
Michael McShane reports for National Review Online on a tangible negative outcome of the recent high-profile mess at the University of Missouri. The Book of Hosea cautions us: “They that…
Once considered among the top disciplines on a college campus, English has lost much of its intellectual rigor. English departments also have lost much of their enrollment. A recent Pope…
Unbelievable. That’s the only apt description of what the News & Observer reports is occurring in Wake County schools. Wake has enrolled 1,023 fewer students than the funding that was…
In today’s Pope Center piece, Duke Cheston writes about the current “problem” facing the state’s community college system: more money has been appropriated for the coming year than it is…
Terry: Maybe this NCES study projecting falling NC enrollment that I wrote about in CJ wasn’t as far-fetched as it sounded at the time.