Articles by Malcolm A. Kline

The College Board commissioned a poll that shows a majority favor increased federal spending on education.

“It is becoming nearly impossible for professors to teach enough to satisfy the demands of career administrators … Unless we’re in the classroom for thirty-five or forty hours per week—the equivalent of a full-time job in the corporate world.”— Michael DeCesare, an associate professor and chair of the Department of Sociology and Criminology at Merrimack College.

The face of medical education is changing and patients may not like it one bit.

Apparently even college campuses aren’t providing green jobs anymore.

Perhaps never is history has there been such a disconnect between what schools teach and what students need to know.

After decades of steady growth, the legal profession is finding that it too is not recession-proof.

Obama Administration supporters watching in shock and awe as the government’s lawyers stumble their way through Supreme Court testimony on the Affordable Care Act might not have been so surprised if they had listened to some of the law’s opponents.

Although his is hardly a controversy-free federal agency, Obama Administration Education Secretary Arne Duncan got off fairly easily in a live interview with Judy Woodruff of PBS.

There is an obvious teachable moment in the Supreme Court case this week which tests the constitutionality of the Obama Administration’s health care program but most law professors will probably miss it.

The dramatic increase in college president salaries has not produced better leaders.—John K. Wilson of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP).

It’s Free Will Friday.

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