Outside the Beltway

The Supreme Court’s decision on Affirmative Action in education didn’t go as far as many thought it would, but it’s future in the near-term seems fairly clear.

A new blog, Rejection Letters of the Philosophers, “imagin[es] what the greats of history might have been faced with, had they been forced to publish or perish.”

Your latest Outrage Of The Day.

Leslie Cohen Berlowitz, president of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, is under fire for academic fraud.

NYU’s Geoffrey Miller has done a groundbreaking study connecting obesity, and particularly the consumption of simple carbohydrates, with failure to complete doctoral dissertations.

The insanity of “Zero Tolerance” policies.

President Obama delivered another powerful speech on race.

Tuition goes up as state funding goes down.

The economics of higher education is increasing the gap between rich and poor.

My latest for The National Interest, “Kenneth Waltz’s Crucial Logic,” has posted.

A generation of kids with massive student loans and no prospects is bad news for the status quo.

General Petreaus is now Dr. Petraeus and will be teaching a 1-1 load a the City University of New York.

Robert Farley takes a shot across the bow at the academy from the pages of one of his field’s most prestigious journals.

Susan Patton, president of Princeton’s Class of 1977, offers some retro advice to her successors: Find a husband while you’re still in school.

In “‘I Urge You to Drop E67-02’: Course Syllabi by Famous Authors,” Emily Temple collects actual syllabi for college literature courses taught by David Foster Wallace, Katie Roiphe, Zadie Smith, and others.

Emory’s James Wagner sees the 3/5 Compromise as the price for achieving a more perfect union.

The main who coined the word “meritocracy” meant it as a pejorative term.

Christina Hoff Summers argues that America needs to fix the way we educate boys.

Applications to America’s Law Schools are down, because the nature of the legal profession is changing.

New rules mandating full-time benefits for instructors teaching 30 hours predictably led to their hours being cut.

I’ve been out of the classroom for just over a decade now and, apparently, things have changed radically.

One major factor in the skyrocketing cost of a college education in America is a huge increase in overhead costs.

A rich child is 45 percent more likely to earn a four-year college degree than a poor one.

Apparent tragedy at a Connecticut Elementary School.

Blake Hounshell finds the footnotes in Andy Carvin’s latest book somewhat amusing:

Want to teach political science for a living? Go to one of a handful of top schools or don’t bother.

Harvard’s pet conservative offers a critique of the Democratic Party that reads like something from the OTB comments section.

The best single means of becoming such an economic winner is to gain admission to a top university

Thinking can be an uncomfortable exercise.

Donald Trump has yet again duped the media into giving him attention by hyping a “bombshell” that turned out to be a nothing-burger.

Florida’s new education policy essentially assumes that minority students cannot do as well as their peers. That’s a mistake.

The Supreme Court seems likely to severely limit the use of race-based preferences at public universities

Largely because they are resisting efforts to hold them accountable for their performance, Chicago’s teachers are leaving 400,000 students locked out of school.

Some surprising findings about how America’s undergraduates are paying for their education.