5+ hour, 45+ min ago  (516+ words) Harvard is thriving. So are Stanford and Princeton. See the tuition charged by all three: at Harvard it’s $59,000, at Princeton it’s $65,000, and it’s $67,000 at Stanford. Here’s the question, or questions: what if all three schools quadrupled tuition? Does anyone seriously…...

1+ week, 21+ hour ago  (890+ words) RealClearMarkets Does College Make You More or Less Interesting? I Say Less Much of college education is a complete scam. A joke. A terrible fraud and an immense money-laundering operation that guilts parents and taxpayers into distributing vast amounts of…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (15+ words) RealClearMarkets Stop Praising All Our 'Wonderful' American Teachers...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (295+ words) If education is so important to the development and future prosperity of young people, why doesn’t the latter reflect in compensation for teachers? It’s a question worth asking as conservatives continue to promote an education crisis narrative. Better yet, if…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (220+ words) Somewhere along the way, America decided that a four-year degree was the only respectable answer to the question of what comes after high school. The plumber who just handed you a $250 bill to replace a faucet cartridge never got that…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (489+ words) “If you’re ignorant, books won’t laugh at you.” Those are the words of Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962), and hopefully a spur to more humble approaches when it comes to “saving” education. Education won’t be fixed in Washington, state legislatures, in school districts,…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (89+ words) Young college graduates are facing a gloomy economic future. Confronting the toughest job market since the depths of the pandemic, they are likely to make less money in the long term and have more trouble advancing their careers, economists warn....

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (17+ words) RealClearMarkets How the Feds Help Foreigners Take Our Jobs...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (46+ words) RealClearMarkets AI Will Create More Jobs, Not Fewer The cost of doing a PET scan, CT scan and MRI has declined 70%, and as a result, many more of them are being carried out and radiologist pay has risen....

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (488+ words) This summer, millions of graduates will face prolonged unemployment or underemployment in a frozen labor market – not because their degrees are inherently useless, but because employers no longer need the knowledge and skills they spent years developing. The real problem…...