Daniel Luzer

The the U.S. Department of Education’s recent release of a trove of information about campus outcomes was in general something the Washington Monthly very much supported. Information about what happens to college graduates, of all sorts, is important, because it can help potential students, parents, and even college administrators make better decisions. But that doesn’t […]

Money in college sport is complicated, many argue. It’s confusing because of the variety of sports and college types, and the intricate revenue streams that make it all work (sort of) together. But a recent article in the Chronicle of Higher Education argues that in a general sense this is how it works. In the […]

Over the last several weeks students at college across the country have staged protests, of various degrees of intensity, about diversity on campus. How should college presidents deal with this? Presidents (perhaps with the notable exception of Sen. Bernie Sanders’s wife, occasional college administrator Jane O’Meara Sanders) tend not to be big radicals, but they’re […]

The relationship between intelligence and race has long been a matter of debate and controversy. There is a connection between race and SAT scores but there is also, of course, a strong relationship between SAT scores and wealth, SAT scores and family education, and SAT scores and school quality. But researchers have recently discovered something […]

Recently President Barack Obama gave a speech that made some of the country’s big liberals feel a little bit less disappointed in his performance. There’s that whole civil liberties problem thing, sure, but some of America’s teachers at least decided they liked him again. According to this Associated Press piece: President Barack Obama on Saturday […]

Academic accreditation of colleges has long been a source of problems, at least in terms of attempts at education reform. A college has to be accredited by some sort of accreditation body in order to assure to potential students that the school isn’t, you know, a total scam. But the really important reason for accreditation […]

Racial preferences in college admissions will come before the U.S. Supreme Court yet again. Abigail Fisher, who is now 25 years old (let it go already, kid) is suing again and arguing that her rejection from UT Austin, back in 2008, and the school’s use of racial preferences, violates her rights. This time American colleges […]

We love college rankings here at the Washington Monthly. Seriously, while for years we’ve sort of enjoyed critiquing the impact of the annual college rankings produced by U.S. New & World Report, in general the editors here believe that the more rankings of colleges we have, and on the more diverse characteristics, the better off […]

Margaret Spellings, President George W. Bush’s second Secretary of Education and a woman responsible for much of the early efforts to implement the the controversial No Child Left Behind Act, will be the next president of the University of North Carolina system. The selection of Spellings, who has never run an academic system before, is […]