Outside the Beltway

Going to or, preferably, graduating from college makes it far more likely you’ll have a job. The numbers don’t lie.

Protests by students at Princeton are causing some people to finally pay attention to some inconvenient truths about America’s 28th President.

Paradoxically, the children of affluent parents are less happy than those of the poor.

The racial saga at Mizzou has not been solved with the ouster of the president and chancellor.

Rolling Stone faces yet another legal headache over last year’s story about a campus rape that never took place.

Massive boycotts and protests likely spell the end of Tim Wolfe’s tenure as president.

Nude photos of hundreds of students in one Colorado high school are being distributed.

Instead of eliminating the Department of Education, Ben Carson wants to give it a new, bizarre, and dangerous mission.

When may I shoot a student?

Up to 13 people are dead and as many 20 injured after another mass shooting on a college campus.

A Texas 9th Grader named Ahmed Mohammed was arrested because school officials and police refused to believe that the clock he built wasn’t a bomb.

International relations prof mostly assign readings by male scholars. Female profs are slightly less likely to do so.

The National Labor Relations Board refused to certify an effort by athletes at Northwestern University to unionize.

The Supreme Court agreed yesterday to wade back into the thorny issue of race and higher education.

A proposed California law would require all students who attend public school to be vaccinated, with limited exemptions for medical reasons.

Lee Siegel takes to the NYT to explain “Why I Defaulted on My Student Loans.”

A wealthy alumnus has given Harvard $400 million, sparking a heated debate.

Being required to demonstrate competency in liberal arts to teach is racially discriminatory, a federal judge has ruled.

One more on this topic.

The first of what is likely to be many defamation suits related to Rolling Stone’s discredited campus rape story has been filed.

The Supreme Court declined to hear the appeal of three students disciplined for wearing American flag shirts on Cinco de Mayo

A sad, complicated story.

Freedom of speech means freedom for all speech, even when it is racially offensive.

The post title is quite the recurring question, it would seem.

The Kentucky Senator and medical doctor claims an undergraduate degree he doesn’t have.

An Oberlin College student makes it clear just why she needs an education.

Apparently, law schools are in the business of coddling their special snowflake children now.

An utter journalistic failure from Rolling Stone.

Every member of the Supreme Court graduated from an Ivy League Law School. That kind of homogeneity is not healthy.

Another school shooting.

Have digital books rendered the publishing houses obsolete?

Their places are being filled by students who pay higher tuition rates.

Does the seriousness of a crime vary depending on the gender of the parties involved?

The end of an era.

Americans have long been lampooned for not speaking a second language. Now our cousins across the Pond are getting it, too.

Dedicated reading improves our brains and our health—unless it’s on a computer screen.

Well, that punishment didn’t last for very long.

My latest for RealClearDefense: “Senator Walsh’s Unrepresentative Black Mark on Professional Military Education”

Just some things to consider about Common Core standards.

A New York Federal Judge has ruled that unvaccinated children can be forced to stay home during outbreaks.