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Unsung Heroes

It’s no surprise that college costs are on the rise. Every family today feels that struggle and burden. According to Bloomberg, college tuition and fees have increased 1,120 percent since its records began in 1978. That number is shocking and concerning on many levels. It’s insane to learn that student-loan debt has surpassed credit-card debt […]

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Train While You Have a Job

Community colleges experience economic cycles differently than the rest of us. When the economy slows down, that can be good news for a community college. People who are out of work are more likely to enroll in classes to update their job skills or to train for a new career, and the college ends up […]

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Train and Retrain

From the Herald-Dispatch, Huntington, W.Va., on a skills gap in new manufacturing jobs: Automation and robotics can be frightening words for some American workers, and understandably so. Smarter, computerized equipment has changed the workplace — and manufacturing in particular — worldwide. But those machines perform functions that people once did, and many of the “factory […]

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Yes, Algebra Is Hard, but ….

Algebra, a subject that has tortured generations of students, is again at the center of a heated debate. It started five years ago when a retired political science professor and author provoked an outpouring of both positive and negative responses with his op-ed piece in the New York Times titled “Is Algebra Necessary?” His answer […]

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5 Crucial Upgrades

The students who I taught for a year at a public school in Dallas, Texas, were required to carry see-through backpacks made from plastic. After 20 kids were caught with “cheese,” the heroin/Tylenol mix, in their sacks, administrators banned opaque bags and sealed up the lockers, too, decorating them instead with paper projects about the […]

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Spend More, Get More

Why aren’t there low-cost college degrees? Either online or on-campus? An investigation by my think tank shows that the government’s biggest education grant program systematically rewards colleges for charging more money. Pell Grants—which aim to make college affordable for low-income persons—push students to borrow and spend more money on college than they might prefer. Read […]

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The Complete Guide to Not Going to College

Kids grow up and go to college. Such is the norm. And yes—you could. Perhaps should. Think of the current economic climate, which all but requires people entering the workforce to arrive at job interviews brandishing their university transcript; think of the social benefits, the broadening of intellectual horizons, the wonder of leisurely exploring every […]

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Partisan Divide Over Academia

As I’ve written, attacks on academia are bread and butter conservative discourse—even though Republicans at the highest levels are the products of elite institutions. This is a problem—not because professors are snowflakes or conservative families are choosing to deny their kids access to higher education. In fact, the overwhelming majority of parents expect their kids […]

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College Within Reach

College students return to campus next week. Unfortunately, the state’s budget mess will hit many of them in the pocketbook. Massive cuts have slashed more than $36 million from what was originally approved for community colleges and state universities this fall. Education is being sacrificed at the expense of tax breaks for special interests and […]

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Upholding Free Speech

It’s as sad as it is ironic that institutions of higher education can’t seem to understand such a basic concept as free expression. This past month, yet another Michigan school, this time Macomb Community College, was sued for violating the speech rights of students. Campus police ticketed students for failing to obtain a required permit […]

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Extend Loan Program

More than 40 years ago, a young adult with very modest family means began an uncertain journey in higher education. It was fraught with many pitfalls and unknowns because this aspiring collegian was one of 13 children and had to finance his college education on his own through a mixture of loans, grants, scholarships and […]

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No Such Thing as ‘Typical’

When I was a kid, my favorite show was “Boy Meets World.” The show was about a kid named Cory Matthews and his coming of age in suburban Philadelphia. Out of all the seasons of “Boy Meets World,” I specifically loved “The College Years” where viewers saw Cory and his friends engage in a “typical […]

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