On his show, Tucker Carlson explains the growing student loan crisis. Students graduating from college with mountains of debt delay their family formation, home buying, and saving. These slowdowns are hurting America. Carlson blames a powerful Washington lobby for exploiting students. Watch his video below: College debt is crushing an entire generation. Colleges are richer […]
Learning on YouTube
Kyle Smith (a Yale graduate) writing on the elite college experience: A thing that occurs if you attend an elite college or university, as I did, is that most of the professors teaching you are more or less the same beleaguered time-servers who would be teaching you at any other school. I well remember the […]
College Admission Scandal Probed by WSJ‘s Peggy Noonan
Avoid Elite Colleges and Head for the Books
In writing about the college admission scandal, Peggy Noonan gives readers an antidote. Kids at Tennessee Tech University in Cookeville are local, she writes. The student body is a racial and ethnic mix, immigrants and children of immigrants. Ms. Noonan found them to be “gracious, welcoming, quick with smart questions on presidents and policy.” At […]
The Diversity Movement and Multiculturalism Overtakes the Modern University
At The Federalist, Joy Pullmann explains the views of Hillsdale College President Larry Arnn, who feels that maybe college isn’t for everyone. Arnn also laments “the diversity movement and the multicultural movement that has overtaken the modern university.” Pullmann writes (abridged): Even though it’s in colleges’ financial and reputational interest to try to generate as […]
Teacher Unions’ Only Agenda? To Protect Their Members
Teacher unions are not reformers or student advocates, despite what the striking teachers in L.A. would have us believe. As Jason L. Riley writes in the WSJ, “Teachers unions are unions first.” Their real agenda—their only agenda—is to protect their members by any means possible. No matter what those picket signs said, the unions weren’t […]
No Room for Free Thought or Political Discourse
From the WSJ: A Campus Poll Joshua Rabotnik writing at PJMedia.com: In January of 2017, when the political controversy over Donald Trump’s perplexing win over Hillary Clinton in the 2016 national election was at its peak, my professor began his political psychology course by asking the lecture hall the following: “How many of you wish […]
Americans Must Get Rid of Common Core
At The Federalist, Dallas-area English teacher and educational thought leader, Auguste Meyrat, explains why America must ditch the smothering and stifling Common Core curriculum as soon as possible. He writes: Most Americans might receive a mediocre education, but this education may be so mediocre that the intended brainwashing might not even be effective. True, some […]
Google, Apple, IBM: No College Degree, No Problem
Tushar Subhra Dutta, writing at TechViral, explains the changes happening at America’s elite tech firms. The companies are changing their hiring focus away from only hiring college graduates with the highest grades to rewarding talent no matter how it was cultivated. Subhra Dutta reports (abridged): We all know very well that all the major technology […]
Brown-Shirted Thuggery at Bucolic Middlebury College
Originally posted on March 6, 2017. Among our favorite Harley Vermont back road rides has been traveling north on Rt. 30 from the Dorset Inn, where we have stayed countless times through the years (going back to when Sissy Hicks was the chef/owner), to the unparalleled setting of Middlebury, Vermont. Riding over the crest of […]
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