Education

Arizona Case Shows the Difference Between Campus Free Speech and Harassment 0
- Education
- April 23, 2019
Three Arizona students may soon learn a valuable lesson: There’s a difference between exercising your free speech on campus and blocking someone else’s attempt to do the same. In March, three University of Arizona students shouted down a group of U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents, and then chased them to their cars, hurling insults
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Compulsory Schooling Laws Aren’t Progressive, They’re Inhumane 0
- Education
- April 2, 2019
Someone asked me recently if I could wave a magic wand and do one thing to improve American education what would it be. Without hesitation, I replied: Eliminate state compulsory schooling statutes. Stripping the state of its power to define and control education under a legal threat of force is a necessary step in pursuit
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Six Factors That Produce Academically Strong Kids 0
- Education
- March 28, 2019
As the decline in education standards in Australia continues, new research conducted by the Centre for Independent Studies (CIS) offers a solution. The study, headed by research fellow Blaise Joseph, examined 18 schools in disadvantaged areas around the country that boast consistent records of above-average academic performance. The study found six common factors across these school that
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Professor Explains How Hiring Really Works at Universities 0
- Education
- March 20, 2019
Growing up, I was taught that fairness and justice required giving people their due. This meant that achievement and merit were the universal criteria for reward. Particular criteria such as gender, race, sexuality, and ethnicity should not matter, for to exclude people on these grounds would be bigotry. How times have changed! Now our official
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Is It Time to Dump the SAT?0
- Education
- March 13, 2019
Several years ago, a bright 25-year-old told me about her time tutoring those taking the SAT tests in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. She worked hard to prep young people for these college admissions tests, demanded much of her students, and set the bar high for herself and them. One young man, a wealthy foreign-born
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College Admission Scandal Grew out of a System That Was Ripe for Corruption 0
- Education
- March 13, 2019
As part of the “Operation Varsity Blues” case that federal prosecutors announced March 12, dozens of people – including Hollywood actresses and wealthy businessmen – stand accused of having bought their children’s way into elite colleges and universities. As a researcher who has studied how young athletes get admitted to college, I don’t see a
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