Articles by Malcolm A. Kline

Both presidential candidates have endorsed making more money available for college loans. They may want to contemplate whether they are solving a crisis or contributing to one.

A free market economist, and an academic no less, shows how the best lessons on how economics works frequently are learned outside the academy, and references two economists not given enough class time in most academies.

In what may be a sad commentary on the state of public education, research shows real-live instructors in a dead heat with computers for the hearts and minds of students.

Now it’s Barack Obama’s turn at bat at the department of Education and we are looking at more expensive strikeouts.

The late James Burnham noted that, “For the Left, the preferred enemy is always on the right.” Academics demonstrate this tendency, even when the cause of the problems they decry may lie on their own side of the political fence.

The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) complains that administrators, rather than faculty, drive up the cost of college. In this case, the AAUP may have a point.

If parents abdicate all responsibility to liberal professors, there’s a good chance the graduate will come home spouting liberal claptrap and looking forward to his or her next Occupy Wall Street rally.—Henry Olsen of the American Enterprise Institute.

Based on my experience as a graduate of Harvard Law School, much of what law schools teach their students is useless drivel, as some law professors themselves have conceded.—Hans Bader of the Competitive Enterprise Institute.

To channel the late CBS commentator Andy Rooney, “Didja ever wonder if public school teachers stay up nights worried about whether the parents of the students can teach this class better than they?”

The California Association of Scholars (CAS) has issued an extensive report taking the Golden State’s university system to task for extensive bias and not-so-apparent academic achievement.

Howard Zinn and Saul Alinsky must be looking down and smiling now, or up.

“In every documentary, the lessons are always what we want it to be.”—CNN’s Soledad O’Brien in an interview published in the May 2012 issue of the American School Board Journal