higher education
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Education
Government Subsidies and the Decline of Higher Ed: Lessons from Australia
by Darren Brady Nelson October 30, 2019The Productivity Commission (PC) of the Australian federal government has produced a number of reports in recent (and past) years on higher education.
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Education, especially the nature and quality of today’s education from kindergarten through college, will have a profound impact on this nation and its future direction, for the children of today will be our future leaders of tomorrow.
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EducationFeaturedPolitics
Leftist Radicals to Blame for Decline of Small Colleges like UW-SP
by Joseph Morris January 16, 2019Who needs “history” — all that irrelevant focus on dead white men — anyway?
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American skepticism toward college isn’t “unsettling” or “dangerous”; it’s completely justified and should serve as a wake-up call to colleges to change course.
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EducationFeaturedPolitics
Let’s Put an End to the Left’s Myths about the Liberal Arts
by Teresa Mull December 13, 2017The study of the liberal arts is increasingly becoming passé. It’s time to change this.
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EducationFeatured
‘Hate Speech’ Makes for a Fascinating Discussion
by Diane Carol Bast November 9, 2017Does the First Amendment allow public universities to adopt rules prohibiting hate speech? Seventy-four percent of us attending a National Constitution Center debate said no.
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The news that Purdue University, Indiana’s public land-grant university, will buy Kaplan University, an online for-profit school, managed to produce only a small blip in national media attention in April.
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There’s no safe space at the modern college for the U.S. Constitution.
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Environment/Energy
Sustainability Craze is Undermining Higher Education
by H. Sterling Burnett April 18, 2015A new report by the National Association of Scholars shows how popular the sustainability movement has become college and university campuses in the United States and around the world, since the movement was formally organized on college campuses in 2006. The NAS’s study argues, the movement poses a serious threat to liberal education and to political and economic liberty.
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Environment/EnergyFeaturedPodcast
Heartland Daily Podcast – National Association of Scholars: Sustainability – Higher Education’s New Fundamentalism
by H. Sterling Burnett April 2, 2015In Today’s Heartland Daily Podcast, Managing Editor of Environment and Climate News H. Sterling Burnett speaks with Rachelle Peterson and Peter Wood of the National Association of scholars. After sharing the history and mission of the NAS, Peter and Rachelle discuss their new report: “Sustainability: Higher Education’s New Fundamentalism.”
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Last year, President Obama announced that he would create a plan to measure colleges based on access, affordability, and student outcome. A recent study done by the American Council on Education states the President’s plan is “well-intentioned but poorly devised.”
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EducationFeaturedLibertyPodcast
Heartland Daily Podcast: Victor Davis Hanson- Educating for a Self-Governing Republic
by Mary Parrilli December 6, 2013Victor Davis Hanson is a well-known historian, commentator, and senior fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. He is collaborating with Pajamas Media on a project called Freedom Academy- an online resource that allows the average reader to delve into a brief survey of western civilization and values.
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EducationFeatured
College Tuition Crisis: Children are the (Government’s) Future – Part 2 of 2
by Dane Skorup July 31, 2013It’s important to realize that college is an investment, a product. Capitalism can make college both as valuable and accessible in general as the rest of our goods and services.