Mark Schneider investigates the value of a college master’s degree. According to the College Scorecard, in the 2021–22 school year, around 1.2 million students were enrolled in master’s programs, and…
Megan Zogby writes for the Martin Center about the link between college success and good advisers. When planning their college years, students want reliable advisors who can help them pick…
Bill McMillan writes for the Martin Center about an alternative to the traditional college degree. As higher education undergoes dramatic changes thanks to the coronavirus, reformers should aim higher than…
Rebecca Kathryn Jude and Chauncey DePree write for the Federalist about a significant threat to the quality of American higher education. “You have to go to college” was an article…
Madeline Baker writes for the Martin Center about the likelihood that UNC System graduates will stay in North Carolina. [A]fter earning a bachelor’s degree, nearly 80 percent of UNC graduates…
Sarah-Jane Lorenzo writes for the Martin Center about a pressing issue in higher education. In the past 20 years, the number of students earning a master’s degree has more than…
Bruno Manno writes for the Washington Examiner about charter schools‘ efforts to help boost their students’ chances for success in college. Education is crucial to economic opportunity and social mobility,…
Charles Fain Lehman of the Washington Free Beacon details a disturbing study into the links between divorce and children’s educational attainment. The children of divorced parents acquire fewer undergraduate and…
Carolina Journal’s Kari Travis reports on comments by UNC President Margaret Spellings during a higher education conference in Texas. Minority students are most likely to be locked out of college…
That’s Nate Silver’s conclusion. The key points from an informative article for Fivethirtyeight.com: Sometimes statistical analysis is tricky, and sometimes a finding just jumps off the page. Here’s one example…
College dropout Bill Gates says: Help Wanted: 11 million college grads To his credit, Gates does address the fact that he was a college dropout. He writes, That’s an achievement…
For a long time, I have been arguing that, due to federal meddling, we have greatly oversold higher education. (Similar to the way we oversold home ownership as the key…