Articles by Malcolm A. Kline

A university we have long been critical of—Duke—recently got together with the Washington University of St. Louis and Turbo Tax to do something useful.

For years, intellectuals—particularly the academic variety—have proclaimed their solidarity with “the working class” but for one of them, this self-identification goes much deeper.

It’s hard to find environmental law in the Constitution, easy to find it in a law school: Maybe that’s why.

The latest Chronicle of Higher Education gives us another reason why it would be good to Drill, baby drill.

Not many would link the CIA acronym with academia but there is a surprising overlap between them.

If you thought service learning involved helping the unfortunate, you have no idea how expansively universities define the concept of “needy:”union organizing and faculty associations make the grade.

A quartet of studies has arrived just in time for the Supreme Court’s consideration of an affirmative action case.

Drawing on data from the U. S. Department of Education, Matthew Ladner of The Friedman Foundation found that reading scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) went from 285 in 1971 to 286 in 2008.

One wonders if Superman will ever get remade with the tagline, “For truth, justice and the American way.”

College graduates, disappointed to find that they are working in minimum-wage positions rather than the “green jobs” their university promised them, might be startled to learn that they got their wish.

The Catholic principle of subsidiarity, whereby that level of government closest to the problem is the one best-equipped to deal with it, may be viewed as quaint but in public education, its inverse could be seen as disastrous.

“Over the last thirty years, America’s test-prep companies have grown from almost nothing into a $5 billion annual industry, allowing the affluent to provide an admissions edge to their less able children.”–Ron Unz, The American Conservative, December 2012