Creationism And Intelligent Design Gain Foothold In Turkey
With direct and indirect help from American foes of evolution, similarly-minded Turks have aggressively made the case that Charles Darwin's theory is ...
With direct and indirect help from American foes of evolution, similarly-minded Turks have aggressively made the case that Charles Darwin's theory is ...
Wall Street Journal | MARK WHITEHOUSE | Posted 11.02.2009 | Business
The pain of the financial crisis has economists striving to understand precisely why it happened and how to prevent a repeat. For that task, John Gean...
Washington Monthly | Steve Benen | Posted 10.18.2009 | Home
Today the Washington Monthly releases its annual College Rankings. It's our alternative to U.S. News & World Report's rankings, which we find objectio...
Avital Binshtock | Posted 09.20.2009 | Green
While the good folks at U.S. News and World Report ascribe certain measurements of prestige to their college rankings, we rated schools based on what matters most to us.
Huffington Post | Ami Cholia | Posted 08.29.2009 | Green
The Princeton Review just came out with a list of the green honor roll for 15 colleges across the country based on their eco-friendly practices and su...
Michael Roth | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics
I long to see President and Mrs. Obama inspire legislation that improves access to and the sustainability of institutions like those that have honored them this week.
Michael Roth | Posted 06.01.2009 | Politics
If we are going to provide a stellar post-secondary education experience in the future, our universities must find a way to promote forms of creative specialization not threatened by collaboration.
Michael Roth | Posted 04.30.2009 | Politics
In the coming weeks, students across the country will be looking at the equivalent of those thick envelopes and asking: Which school can I afford, and which school will be the place where I thrive?
Tri Robinson | Posted 04.08.2009 | Green
As a committed student and Bible teacher I have read and taught the story of the flood numerous times, always seeing it the same way until one morning in 2005.
John W. Whitehead | Posted 03.08.2009 | Politics
If Congress have lost sight of what this economic crisis is about and whom the stimulus plan is supposed to be helping, perhaps the following sobering statistics will serve as a reminder.
Gina Nahai | Posted 02.06.2009 | Living
Many colleges and universities have devoted their energies to enlarging the size of their endowments at the expense of the education and wellbeing of their students.
Kathleen Reardon | Posted 01.04.2009 | Living
If how our children speak is an indication of how they think, our young people and the country are in deep trouble.
New York Times | Tamar Lewin | Posted 01.02.2009 | Politics
The rising cost of college -- even before the recession -- threatens to put higher education out of reach for most Americans, according to the annual ...
New York Times | Tamar Lewin | Posted 12.09.2008 | Business
Arizona State University, anticipating at least $25 million in budget cuts this fiscal year -- on top of the $30 million already cut -- is ending its ...
Jerry Lucido | Posted 11.14.2008 | Living
As if the world's financial turmoil isn't enough, many students and their parents have the added anxiety of college applications and testing this fall. Fortunately, a new report on the use of those tests may let them breathe a little easier.
Washington Post | Marc Kaufman | Posted 11.08.2009 | World