Daniel Luzer

The devil is in the details. In a follow-up to the piece yesterday about Lumina grants to improve higher education, it looks like for some states the changes spurred by the grant may be complicated. Texas, one of the states to receive a portion of the $9.1 million Lumina money is debating how to improve […]

Remember how America used to worry about class size? Class size was the big demon of education: large, impersonal learning environments where professors droned on at the blackboard while students passed notes and fell asleep in the back rows. There were even efforts to reduce class size. And then we stopped trying. We stopped at […]

Actor Kirk Cameron, who used to be a teen heartthrob, then subsequently underwent a religious conversion and is a very conservative (read: anti-evolution) evangelical Christian, is now hawking Darwin on college campuses. Well, sort of. Living Waters is a group that argues the literal truth of the Bible. The group, with which Cameron is affiliated, […]

Policy about pregnancy prevention is often concentrated on high schools. The thinking is that women often drop out of high school because they get pregnant; pregnancy prevents women from going to college. But according to community colleges, it’s more complicated than that. It’s actually unplanned pregnancies that occur while women are in school that’s trouble, […]

Are there really too many people going to college? Possibly as a result of the economy, and possibly as a result of Charles Murray’s most recent book (the premise of which is that only “10 to 15 percent of the nation’s youth” are even minimally prepared for college), there’s a discussion going around about who […]

As Jesse Singal explained last week the U.S. Education Department is planning to stop the Federal Family Education Loan (FFEL) program and convert all higher education lending to the Direct Loan plan. But many schools are not making internal efforts to support the change. This issue has lately become a matter of some concern for […]

Dave Murray of the Grand Rapids Press had a column last week called “Can college students learn as much from an online class?” which features the almost evergreen discussion about whether or not colleges are actually as effective online. There are, we know now, many people enrolled in college online. As Murray explains: Robert Mendenhall […]

Arizona is doing something original in higher education and not just at, um, the University of Phoenix. Arizona is beginning the process of creating a new state higher education system, focused on changing existing universities, and making it easier for Arizonians to get a degree using a focus on existing community colleges. According to an […]

Remember how colleges promised to scale back on early decision, because of the irritating way the practice favored rich people and left it harder for kids who had been rejected from their first choice school to get into another? In the last decade many colleges began to form large portions of their college classes through […]

The list of Americans awarded Rhodes Scholarships this year were announced on Saturday. The annual notice of the Rhodes Scholarships is, as a general rule, of limited interest to people other than the families of those chosen. In part this is because the students, while clever and well rounded are, after all, still in college […]