Education
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What Rightward Shift in Higher Ed?
A new Urban Institute report claims that conservative philanthropy has shifted higher education to the right in the past 50 years. The empirical evidence says otherwise.
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Like the Soviet Economy, American Higher Education Is Collapsing
The question is not if, but when and how reforms will come.
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The Astonishing Mess of Academic Publishing
Every step of academic publication is fraught with practices that would drive away the customer base of any other industry. Is there a better alternative?
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The Fairytale of Hegemonic Neoliberalism
Far from fighting to supplant a prevailing ideology for our age, “neoliberalism’s” critics appear to be battling a phantasm of their own imagining.
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Why Students Are Fleeing the Humanities
If enough students find the hyper-politicized classroom offerings in the humanities and social sciences to their disliking, they will eventually vote with their feet.
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The Myth of “Neoliberal” Academic Hegemony
Contrary to popular myth, the humanities are actually growing at a faster pace than most of the university system.
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Here Is Proof that the Leftist Tilt on Campus Has Gotten Dramatically Worse
Faculty radicalism is on the rise, and that’s bad news for the intellectual climate on campus.
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The Reason for the Leftist Hegemon on Campus
Non-left students may also perceive that the decks are stacked against them on the academic career path, and unfortunately there’s emerging evidence of this problem.
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AIER Helps Bring Economics to the Classroom
Students don’t learn enough economics, neither as a subject nor as a way of thinking across the curriculum. AIER was proud to co-sponsor and partner on an event last week with two organizations working to change that fact: the Foundation for Teaching Economics (FTE), and the Economic Education Center at Lindenwood University’s School of Education…
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The LeBron James Strategy for Saving Schools
James was given unprecedented freedom with I Promise School, even though taxpayers are footing about 75 percent of the bill.
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What Rightward Shift in Higher Ed?
A new Urban Institute report claims that conservative philanthropy has shifted higher education to the right in the past 50 years. The empirical evidence says otherwise.
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•
Like the Soviet Economy, American Higher Education Is Collapsing
The question is not if, but when and how reforms will come.
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•
The Astonishing Mess of Academic Publishing
Every step of academic publication is fraught with practices that would drive away the customer base of any other industry. Is there a better alternative?
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•
The Fairytale of Hegemonic Neoliberalism
Far from fighting to supplant a prevailing ideology for our age, “neoliberalism’s” critics appear to be battling a phantasm of their own imagining.
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•
Why Students Are Fleeing the Humanities
If enough students find the hyper-politicized classroom offerings in the humanities and social sciences to their disliking, they will eventually vote with their feet.
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•
The Myth of “Neoliberal” Academic Hegemony
Contrary to popular myth, the humanities are actually growing at a faster pace than most of the university system.
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•
Here Is Proof that the Leftist Tilt on Campus Has Gotten Dramatically Worse
Faculty radicalism is on the rise, and that’s bad news for the intellectual climate on campus.
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•
The Reason for the Leftist Hegemon on Campus
Non-left students may also perceive that the decks are stacked against them on the academic career path, and unfortunately there’s emerging evidence of this problem.
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•
AIER Helps Bring Economics to the Classroom
Students don’t learn enough economics, neither as a subject nor as a way of thinking across the curriculum. AIER was proud to co-sponsor and partner on an event last week with two organizations working to change that fact: the Foundation for Teaching Economics (FTE), and the Economic Education Center at Lindenwood University’s School of Education…
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The LeBron James Strategy for Saving Schools
James was given unprecedented freedom with I Promise School, even though taxpayers are footing about 75 percent of the bill.