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Unlicensed and unregulated private schools in the Third World
In the City Journal (one of today's most underappreciated publications, in my opinion), Liam Julian has a quick book review of The Beautiful Tree, a book by James Tooley (published by Cato) about unlicensed, unrecognized, and unregulated private scho...
White firefighters case may have implications for college enrollment and affordability
In January, I blogged about a paper that argued that the rise in college graduates was due to a specific Supreme Court case, Griggs v. Duke Power, decided in 1971. The ruling implied that that any test given by employers to prospective employees was...
A better way to decrease homophobia on campuses
The Weekly Standard has an article criticizing Yale's new expenditure on an "Office of LGBTQ Resources," in light of recent cut-backs in other areas. Though I disagree with some things in the article (what's so bad about "gender-neutral housing," wh...
Why do we really go to college?
George Will had an op-ed in the Washington Post on Sunday where he summarized a paper written by Richard Vedder and Bryan O'Keefe, in which they argued that the 1971 Supreme Court case Griggs vs. Duke Power effectively made the higher education marke...
It's the teachers, stupid!
In contrast to last month's godawful article by James Surowiecki, the New Yorker's got a great article dated tomorrow by Malcolm Gladwell about the determinants of a good teacher. Basically he finds that predicting a teacher's effect on students' le...
Using eminent domain to blight neighborhoods
The Weekly Standard has a comprehensive and compelling piece of investigative reporting on Columbia University's attempt to acquire 17 acres in the heart of the Manhattanville section, north of its Morningside campus. The tale is a classic example o...
