Articles by Malcolm A. Kline

Are teachers’ unions necessary or are they inhibiting school improvement?

Many colleges now have an an independent and conservative press willing to write about what goes on in their classrooms and in classrooms at other universities.

Waste and funding abuse at Bucknell University might go unreported if not for the staff of The Counterweight.

An academic take on the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks may be more insightful than it at first appears to be.

Of all the attempts to reform education, the so-called school-to-work program, in many ways, looked like the most promising.

Educational experimenters rejoiced when multibillionaire Bill Gates’ foundation bankrolled some of their favorite education schemes, but these private sector philanthropists quickly learned what public officials are loathe to admit: social planning will not yield literacy.

American colleges and universities can still claim that they are producing more scientists every year but they can juice those numbers by the manner in which they label various academic disciplines as scientific.

Left unspoken in much of the debate over the exploding cost of higher education is the degree to which college and university administrators themselves may be padding their bills.

College catalogues usually don’t come in brown paper wrappers but maybe some of them should.

With one Cornell professor, coming to his conclusions about the Florida recount will improve your grade.

While many academics blame the Bush administration for Hurricane Katrina, at least one is blaming Ronald Reagan.

Post-secondary indoctrination can be pretty intense too.