United States law that provided a range of benefits for returning World War II veterans
The latest Martin Center column features remarks from economist and higher education critic Richard Vedder, delivered recently during a speech in Raleigh. … [W]hat explains the explosion in higher education…
Thomas Donlan devotes his latest Barron’s editorial commentary to the growing problem of college debt. College graduates are more likely to be working, to express job satisfaction, to have health…
We’ve seen the sad results from the bursting of the national housing bubble. George Leef’s latest Forbes column warns readers about the dangers associated with another bubble. The housing bubble…
Michael Gerson writes here about the momentum for empowering parents with school vouchers, which recently received a boost from the Indiana Supreme Court. Gerson also details some interesting data about…
Over at the National Association of Scholars page today there is a transcript of a debate between NAS president Peter Wood, writer Ashley Thorne, and Education Sector chief Kevin Carey.…
Metro Magazine columnist Jim Leutze has a penchant for spouting clich?s and making illogical arguments, always in the service of furthering statist control in the U.S. When challenged, his approach…
I did read the last two sentences. The only founders who anticipated King’s words were called Anti-federalists (statesmen who had various reservations about ratifying the Constitution). Neither they or the…
University of Missouri economics professor Peter Klein explains here why we still find large numbers of professors espousing the intellectually moribund notions of socialism. I especially like his contention that…
The fact is that the GI Bill money comes with a load of strings attached. The GI Bill requires that the college is accredited by regional accrediting bodies. The bodies…
Daren, There is no historical evidence that the G.I. Bill was a slippery slope leading to an increase in government involvement in higher education. None of the legislation of the…
Daren, You said: “One only has to look at what is happening to higher education to see how vouchers will be the government’s excuse for control of education.” I think…
That N&O piece is typical of the PR job the higher education establishment does. First, we get the assertion that the GI Bill, by subsidizing college education, “helped spur the…