Education

The Department of Education has the role of selecting and authorizing private accrediting agencies which, in turn, are enabled to give or not give accreditation.

Higher education has become unaffordable and its curriculums hopelessly politicized. We should remember that all of this is a result of programs developed more than a half-century ago to make higher education more accessible.

Jason Jewell is chief academic officer and vice chancellor for strategic initiatives of the State University System of Florida. He began attending Mises Institute events as a graduate student in 2002.

President Trump‘s threat to withhold $9 billion from Harvard University is being framed in the legacy media and academia as a threat to Harvard‘s academic freedom. But there is a pertinent question no pundits are even asking.

President Trump‘s threat to withhold $9 billion from Harvard University is being framed in the legacy media and academia as a threat to Harvard‘s academic freedom. But there is a pertinent question no pundits are even asking: Why are taxpayers being forced to give Harvard $9 billion?

Federal education officials claim to be “enforcing” racial equality in American classrooms, but the reality is that the government often is the source of racial bigotry in the schools.

If Ivy League protesters love anything more than performative activism, it’s free money, especially when it comes from people they claim to hate.

Phasing out the Department of Education is a step in the right direction towards an increasingly market-oriented system of education.

There‘s a new sheriff in town, and that spells trouble for the vast federal subsidies that undergird much of higher education. With more universities becoming R1 research institutions, the competition for dwindling federal dollars will change the higher education landscape.

"Universities are nurseries of socialism, but there's always a remnant of young people who resist the statist propaganda."