Mike Rowe: I Don’t Want To Pay For Your Useless College Degree
“Tuition will never come back to Earth if we bail out those who borrowed more than they could repay,” Mike Rowe writes.
Why It’s A Good Thing Coronavirus Will Mow Down Many Colleges
If this virus leads to tightening academic grants, defunding activist departments, making students more fiscally responsible, and shuttering nonessential bureaucracy in higher ed, then that’s a good thing.
How Congress Can Expand Americans’ Life-Starting Options Beyond College
The 529 Plan lets families save tax-free for university tuition. Let’s open that up so families can spend it to jumpstart young adults’ careers.
We Don’t Need To Trash Higher Education, We Need To Make It Better
There are opportunities for substantive reform in the current system. But mocking college graduates, many of whom have been led astray, doesn’t help.
Scoring College Majors’ Earnings Gives Students The Wrong Idea About Who’s Responsible For Their Success
The U.S. Department of Education is expected to announce a plan to require all U.S. higher education institutions to make data on debt and earnings by major publicly available.
How Going To College Makes You A Worse Daycare Teacher
Pursuing a diploma instead of actually working in a daycare will make for a worse care giver. Caretakers will go to college, carrying books rather than babies, and come back as worse teachers as a result.
No, Stay At Home Moms Don’t ‘Waste’ Their Education
Anyone who castigates a woman for failing to cash in on her degree reveals a complete misunderstanding of the nature and purpose of education and the actual needs of society.
Study: College Students Spend Far More Time Playing Than Studying
Most college students study and sit in class less than 20 hours per week. They spend three times that amount on leisure activities.
Why Making College ‘Free’ Won’t Help The Poor
I have taught some of the poorest Americans, so I know it is laughable to think most poor students fail to graduate from college simply because it costs too much.
Let’s Reclaim The Glory Of Being A ‘Maker’
Today, more parents would accept their son’s declaration that he identifies as a girl than that he wants to be an underwater welder.
Why Scott Walker’s Education Doesn’t Matter
The media has already started scrutinizing Scott Walker’s lack of a college degree. Why don’t we also question the readiness of degree-holding candidates?