Education
President Obama Promotes Plan to Raise College Tuitions
Peter Schiff | 28 October 2011
By limiting student obligations to repay, and by passing more of the repayment burden onto taxpayers, colleges and universities will be able to continue to raise tuitions at a rate that outpaces nearly every other cost center in the American economy.
By limiting student obligations to repay, and by passing more of the repayment burden onto taxpayers, colleges and universities will be able to continue to raise tuitions at a rate that outpaces nearly every other cost center in the American economy.
Can Education Cure the Entitlement Mentality?
Michael Hurd | 3 December 2010Anyone out there still willing to think?
Motivation and Education
Lisa VanDamme | 10 June 2010The teacher must identify the value of his course, design the curriculum accordingly, and name the value explicitly.
A Letter from a Child
Thomas Sowell | 5 October 2009While our children are frittering away time on trivia, other children in other countries are acquiring the skills in math, science or other fields that will allow them to take the jobs our children will meed when they grow up.
Multiculturalism is No Boon to Education, But an Agent of Anti-Western Ideology
Elan Journo | 17 September 2009Back to school nowadays means back to classrooms, lessons and textbooks permeated by multiculturalism and its championing of "diversity." Many parents and teachers regard multiculturalism as an indispensable educational supplement, a salutary influence that "enriches" the curriculum. But is it?
Obama's Betrayal of Education
Walter Williams | 16 September 2009Instead of President Obama addressing school students across the nation, he might have accomplished more by focusing his attention on the educational rot in schools in the nation's capital.
Barack Obama: Seducer of the Young
Walter Williams | 8 September 2009The primary goal of health care "reform" is the enactment of the legal basis for totalitarianism. So many of the provisions of the health care bill, to a close reading, set a precedent for government control of every single basis of our lives -- health care or not.
Barack Obama: Heil Headmaster!
Edward Cline | 5 September 2009Someone else may have said it first: When the adults won't listen, go after the kids.
College Education: To Much of a "Good Thing"?
Thomas Sowell | 28 June 2009Given the composition of the population as it is-- which is always what we have to start with-- what evidence is there that too few or too many are going to college?
Tell Me Everything You Know
Lisa VanDamme | 25 June 2009I have invented a new educational game. I call it "Tell Me Everything You Know." Here is how the game works in my grammar class...
Dollars and Crosses
- Jane Orient on Quitting Medicare
- Ayn Rand’s Essay “To Whom It May Concern” Now Online
- Uses and Sources of Gold
- New Book: How to be Profitable and Moral: A Rational Egoist Approach to Business
- Democracy and Self Determination of Peoples: Euphenisms for Mob Rule in the Middle East
- Private Schools for the Poor
- Holleran on Anti-Hero Worship
- Salsman on the Anti-Capitalist Conservatives
- New Website: Checking Premises
- Job Creators: Who Do those Immigrants Think They Are?
