Consider: Is the university ending, as we know it? Maybe. Think how technological change must necessarily impact education, for good or ill. We can always praise the campus life of yesteryear, but that is like praising the telephone system of yesteryear. It was sturdy and reliable, but a small group of nerds in the 1970s [...]
Education can be compared to plate tectonics in geology. In geology, we find that the earth is not a uniform, solid mass, but rather contains many different layers, all invisibly bound together by gravity and blanketed by magnetic lines. Surrounding an innermost, solid-metal core is an outer core of molten lava, where rocks and metals [...]
Recently, analyst Victor Davis Hanson observed that, not only is our world changing radically but it is changing radically very quickly. Nowhere is this more true than in the world of mainstream print media, where legacy organizations are collapsing much more quickly than many of us would have expected, raising the question of—what’s a writer [...]
Recently, we have been profiling the work of Greg Lukianoff, author of Unlearning Liberty, essentially a compendium of the findings of Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) on the diminishment in recent years of intellectual freedom on university campuses. Ironic indeed, because the campus is where intellectual liberty is precisely most suited to flourish. [...]
That is what demographer Jonathan Last, author of What to Expect When No One’s Expecting, recently told Ed Driscoll at PJ Media about an insect scientist whom mainstream media of the day took really seriously, whose predictions of famine in his bestselling The Population Bomb (instead of the current worldwide epidemic of obesity) were seriously [...]
The transition from high school to college gives students nightmares for months. With the way college is portrayed in movies and TV shows, it leads anyone to believe it’s filled with parties, date rape drugs, impossibly hard classes, and psychotic roommates. In reality, almost everything you hear about college is a myth. So sit back, [...]
Students who have a bit of time over the summer may wish to consider the Discovery Institute’s summer courses: 2013 C.S. Lewis Fellows Program on Science and Society: The C.S. Lewis Fellows Program on Science and Society will explore the growing impact of science on politics, economics, social policy, bioethics, theology, and the arts during [...]
In “Fewer Dollars and Babies Threaten Social Programs,” Washington Examiner analyst Michael Barone brings up a key factor that would-be education majors must consider, the continuing decline in the birth rate: … the Census Bureau reported that the U.S. birth rate in 2011 was 63.2 per 1,000 women age 15 to 44, the lowest ever [...]
Student activist Celia Bigelow tells us, Yes, the amount of young Americans attending college has increased in the last four years, but college tuition has increased at a much higher rate of 25 percent. The tsunami of federal student loan aid that is flooding the pockets of college administrators and staff has come with no [...]
Here, at New York Times: As of this month, there were 30,000 applicants to law schools for the fall, a 20 percent decrease from the same time last year and a 38 percent decline from 2010, according to the Law School Admission Council. Of some 200 law schools nationwide, only 4 have seen increases in [...]