Daniel Luzer

The education master’s degree doesn’t really make people better teachers. Last month both Education Secretary Arne Duncan and billionaire Bill Gates said that master’s degree bonuses were an example of spending money on something that doesn’t work. So how should Americans spend public money to get good teachers? Turns out it’s a big question. According […]

We wouldn’t keep bringing this up if it weren’t important. Seriously. The Monthly‘s annual fundraising drive continues. If you’re a regular, you know that the Washington Monthly offers the kind of cutting-edge reporting and analysis the country needs now more than ever, breaking big stories well ahead of other media outlets. While those who’ve already […]

According to a piece by Joyce Jones in Diverse Issues in Higher Education, someone else is arguing that maybe debt rules and more information about outcomes shouldn’t stop with for-profit colleges. But who should provide this information? As Jones writes: According to a report released by Dr. Bridget Terry Long, a professor at Harvard University’s […]

Back in April College Guide wrote about the odd situation at the University of Missouri, where Robin Pingeton announced at the press conference the university held when it hired her how happy she was, as a Christian and wife and mother, to be the women’s varsity basketball coach. She may have been trying to avoid […]

Michael Rao (right), the president of Virginia Commonwealth University, announced last week that he’s withdrawn the strange confidentiality agreements that he previously required some of his employees to sign. According to an article by Karin Kapsidelis in the Richmond Times-Dispatch: With the board of visitors meeting yesterday to evaluate his performance, Virginia Commonwealth University President […]

A State Department official apparently warned students at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs not to talk about WikiLeaks. Really. On November 30 the school’s office of career services sent the following email to students: Hi students, We received a call today from a SIPA alumnus who is working at the State Department. […]

Students attending George Washington University will now get something else next year: the chance to live with members of the opposite sex. According to an Associated Press article in the Richmond Times-Dispatch: George Washington University will for the first time allow men and women to share dorm rooms. Gay, lesbian and transgendered students helped argue […]

Some students and employees at West Chester University were very concerned when they began seeing posters on campus calling for a whites-only student union group. According to an article by Kathy Boccella in the Philadelphia Inquirer: The poster, which was hung on bulletin boards in several campus buildings Tuesday, called on those who “feel underrepresented […]

The Obama administration’s much-discussed Deficit-Reduction Panel isn’t just calling for tax increases and cuts to defense spending and Social Security benefits. Higher education would also face some changes. According to a piece in the Chronicle of Higher Education, the final report released by the panel says the United States should, …end the in-school interest subsidy […]

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