Education

September 30, 2024

Redefining ‘Academic Excellence’ Will Not Save Colleges

Since March of 2020, “at least 64 public or nonprofit colleges have closed, merged, or announced closures or mergers,” affecting an estimated 46,720 students. More than 500 have shut down in the past decade. Continue Reading...

July 30, 2024

The Conservative Student on the Liberal Campus

John Stuart Mill’s On Liberty never lost its relevance, but we have witnessed a resurgence of interest in it. In the latter half of the past century, many conservative writers, most notably Willmoore Kendall, provided trenchant criticisms of Mill’s arguments. Continue Reading...

July 11, 2024

Posting the Ten Commandments in Classrooms Will Not Fix Dysfunctional Public Schools

The Louisiana legislature is about to pass a bill that would require every public school in the state to post the Ten Commandments in each classroom. The bill’s author, Rep. Dodie Horton, explained that the “purpose [of the law] is not solely religious” but also serves to “display the history of our country and foundation of our legal system.” Continue Reading...

June 21, 2024

Decay and Reform in Christian Higher Education

Writing on June 16 at Current, John Fea tells a story that’s becoming too familiar in Christian higher education: Last Spring, ten Cornerstone faculty … either left Cornerstone or were forced out by the administration. Continue Reading...

April 19, 2024

The Coming Education Dark Age and What to Do About It

A few weeks ago, cultural critic and jazz musician Ted Gioia wrote a must-read essay that lays out today’s dismal cultural situation. His thesis: “2024 may be the most fast-paced—and dangerous—time ever for the creative economy.” Continue Reading...

February 15, 2024

The Michaela Way and Living in Community

Educators love innovation. Education reform is a perennial theme in political campaigns, and almost every government has new rhetoric about how to reverse plummeting test scores, declining student achievement, and increased school violence and truancy. Continue Reading...

September 06, 2023

Student Loans and the Sin of Usury

A new school year has just begun, and students and their parents are faced once again with the high cost of higher education. The Supreme Court ruled President Biden’s executive order on student loan forgiveness unconstitutional. Continue Reading...

August 09, 2023

Servility, Vanity, and Lack of Conviction: Welcome to College

Why the gnashing of teeth over the recent Supreme Court decision on affirmative action? Why have some schools responded by eliminating legacy admissions? What does the controversy tell us about how we understand the university itself? Continue Reading...

June 01, 2023

Are High School Debates Rigged Against Conservative Teens?

I keep rereading James Fishback’s essay on high school debate. Published May 25 in the Free Press, he called out the national circuit of high school debate for being partisan, polarized, and punitive toward any students with sane, moderate, or conservative arguments. Continue Reading...

March 14, 2023

A Catholic College Guts Its Curriculum

Some years ago, only tangentially related to the reading we were doing in our seminar class, the students and I got into a conversation about jobs we found especially unappealing. I began with “guy who sprays de-icing chemicals on planes in the middle of winter from a cherry picker,” and the students quickly followed suit. Continue Reading...

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