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The Monopolized Economy

September/October 2024 Print Edition

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Why Professors Can’t Teach

For as long as universities have existed, academics have struggled to impart their knowledge to students. The failing is fixable—if Washington demands it.
by Jonathan Zimmerman

Escape from Higher Ed’s Bermuda Triangle

Two decades ago, reformers introduced effective new ways to help college students lost in the vortex of “remedial” education classes. But progress stalled. Time to finish the revolution.
by Anne Kim

Education

Americans Have Not Actually Turned Against Higher Education Like the Media Says

As many colleges grapple with declining enrollment and intense political criticism, sagging public support for higher learning has become a journalistic given, the kind of as-we-all-know fact that can be simply asserted as context before advancing an argument or presenting the news of the day. But many of these articles are getting the story wrong.…

by Kevin Carey and Sophie Nguyen

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