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 [...]

In Forbes, Greg Lukianoff of Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) and author of Unlearning Liberty notes a story I had referenced earlier here, Introducing Arun Smith, heroic censor. Last week at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, this student tore down a “free speech wall” display that a libertarian student group had set up [...]

E.D. Hirsch, Jr., explains, From 1945 to 1967, 12th-graders’ verbal scores on the SAT and other tests had risen. But then those scores plummeted. Cornell economist John Bishop wrote in the 1980s of “the historically unprecedented nature of the test score decline that began around 1967. Prior to that year test scores had been rising steadily [...]

Here’s what journalist Katie Kieffer says, Who knew? My parents are cool. Homeschooling is becoming hipster. Celebrity parents like Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie proudly discuss their homeschooling lifestyle. But pioneers like my parents set the rend of educational freedom. The plan was to send me to public school. My mother enjoyed her job as [...]