November 26, 2012
MTC: Should We Charge Different Fees for Different Majors?
Richard Vedder
In the first couple weeks of any survey course in the principles of economics, students are taught that prices are determined by the interactions of consumers (demand) and producers (supply). Prices f......
October 4, 2012
MTC: The Perils of Student Choice
Mark Bauerlein
The release of SAT scores last week gives strong ammunition to proponents of a core curriculum. As reported in the Wall Street Journal , reading scores hit their lowest figure in four decades. Writing......
September 26, 2012
MTC: Coping with 'Professional Students' in Community Colleges
Charlotte Allen
The party’s over for community college students in California, notorious for large numbers of young and not-so-young people using the low-cost system to drift in and out of classes, fill up t......
August 21, 2012
MTC: College Degrees Aren't Umbrellas
George Leef
Why go to college? Go back fifty years, and the answer commonly given was, "To become a well-rounded person who has a grasp of our civilization's history, science, and art." Go back about twenty-five......
July 20, 2012
MTC: Common Core Standards Can Save Us
J.M. Anderson
It's no secret that most high school graduates are unprepared for college. Every year, 1.7 million first-year college students are enrolled in remedial classes at a cost of about $3 billion an......
June 19, 2012
MTC: Two Commencement Talks That Got Attention
Jonathan Imber
The Boston Globe recently reported that the journalist Fareed Zakaria delivered very similar if not identical addresses this commencement season at Harvard and at Duke. Zakaria was perfectly within h......
April 19, 2012
Article: Capitalism and Western Civilization: Social Darwinism
William H. Young
William Young discusses the reputation and reality of Social Darwinism's influence on business practices.
March 20, 2012
MTC: Bollinger: Free Speech, Except on His Own Campus
KC Johnson
In a recent interview, Columbia University president Lee Bollinger was asked whether the Hazelwood standard of student speech should be applied to colleges and universities. (Hazelwood gave high-scho......