Much like the health care industry, information about the actual costs of higher education is woefully inadequate, says Stuart Butler, a senior fellow in economic studies at The Brookings Institution. After centuries of little...
Virginia has played a pivotal role throughout American history. Permanent English settlement began here. Virginia is the birthplace of eight U.S. presidents. On our soil the nation struggled for its independence and to end...
A recent survey from the American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA) found that many universities lack important core requirements for those studying the liberal arts, according to a press release. The 2014-2015 “What Will They...
One of the most obvious fields in which making changes has been harmful is education. To be kind, in many instances the tinkering has been well intended but a failure. Survey after survey have...
Don’t know much about history. Or literature, or foreign languages, or government, or economics, or … Giving it the old college try? Not so much. Many of today’s college students aren’t getting much of...
Students at one college, at least, can meet the class requirements they need for graduation by studying principles of supply and demand as they relate to Captain Kirk. Some analysts are unhappy about that,...
Duquesne University is joining a growing list of colleges dropping SAT/ACT test requirements, as the debate rages about the value of tests that have been a gold standard for college admissions for nine decades....
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