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Why don’t “conservatives” in Congress have more success in fighting the government education monolith?

Even education insiders are beginning to acknowledge that the data mining the federal government is now engaged in under Common Core produces little in the way of education achievement.

The U. S. Department of Education wants for-profit colleges to prove that their graduates are gainfully employed. For their part, the for-profits claim that their non-profit counterparts would fail such a test.

A little bible college in Los Angeles may revive the, at best, moribund and musty discipline of philosophy and academic philosophers don’t like it one bit.

A panel discussion was held at the Center for American Progress to discuss the role of the private sector in education on Thursday, May 31.

Even when the goal seems worthwhile, federal spending on education is counterproductive.

At this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) the discussion sponsored by Regent University’s School of Government centered around the future of conservative education no matter how iffy this looks.

Conservatism and education: two things you don’t often see mixed together – except when the federal government gets caught extending its hand into the classroom.

Seattle, WA—  One of the remarkable things about college today is the degree to which professors and students engage in activity, that for the cost of admission, they could pursue off campus for next to nothing.

Where once she called for accountability in elementary and secondary education, she now finds it abhorrent. Why the change?

Cost-benefit analysis may not be their strong suit but education majors may have figured out how to get the best return on their investment from  college.

Attempts by the U. S. Department of Education to tighten the reins on the Ivory Tower may already be backfiring on the very colleges and universities that welcomed the move.