All Posts Tagged With: "higher education"
Independent Schools at Risk
Jacob Huebert is a student at Grove City College and an intern at FEE. As discontentment with government schools grows, tax-funded “school choice” has emerged as the leading reform proposal. School-choice programs typically include a voucher plan, although some would make direct payments from the government to private schools. Those proposals are intended to give [...]
1Sep1999 | Jacob H. Huebert | 2 comments | ContinuedSubsidized Education
Russell Madden teaches at Mt. Mercy College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. It’s an annual ritual. With a sense of dread tinged with resignation, college students, or their parents, wait to discover how much this year’s tuition will rise. Unlike their experience with new computers, they entertain no expectation that rates for their education will decrease. [...]
1Sep1999 | Russell Madden | 30 comments | ContinuedWho Killed Homer? The Demise of Classical Education and the Recovery of Greek Wisdom
Fred Miller teaches the classical Greek language and is professor of philosophy and executive director of the Social Philosophy and Policy Center at Bowling Green State University. Over a decade ago, Allan Bloom’s explosive book, The Closing of the American Mind, opened the floodgates of criticism of American higher education for perverting its ostensible mission [...]
1Jun1999 | Fred D. Miller Jr. | 1 comment | ContinuedAll the Essential Half-Truths about Higher Education
George Roche is the president of Hillsdale College and author of The Fall of the Ivory Tower. George Dennis O’Brien, retired president of Bucknell University and the University of Rochester and author of What to Expect from College, has addressed himself to a vitally important subject—the many myths and misconceptions surrounding American higher education. Although [...]
1May1999 | George Roche | 0 comments | ContinuedEducation and the Free Society
Linda C. Raeder is a doctoral candidate in political theory at the Catholic University of America and associate editor of Humanitas. The classical-liberal philosophy of limited government and the rule of law is in danger of being consigned to oblivion. Enemies of the free society have successfully appropriated the time-honored “liberal” name and transformed it [...]
1Oct1997 | Linda C. Raeder | 1 comment | ContinuedThe Problem of Education Doesn’t End at the 12th Grade
The decline in students’ test scores and of literacy in America are often laid at the doorstep of K-12 public education. Children are clearly being shortchanged, but not by the K-12 system alone. Indirectly but decisively, children are being shortchanged by the system that teaches the teachers who teach the children—higher education.
1Jan1997 | Lawrence W. Reed | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Fall of the Ivory Tower: Government Funding, Corruption, and the Bankrupting of Higher Education
This book picks up where Dinesh D’Souza leaves off. Not only has political correctness reached epidemic proportions in higher education, but so have mismanagement, waste, and corruption. The cause: a long history of expanding government involvement which has created a class of dependents whose lust for easy money is matched only by their irresponsibility. Roche [...]
1Jan1995 | Steven Yates | 1 comment | Continued-
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