Two months back I made the non-joke that MOOC's---massive off-line open courses---were not new, not "revolutionary", and were therefore not going to "change the face of education as we know…

Must-reading from the Wall Street Journal. Richard Vedder: "The Real Reason College Costs So Much. The expert on the economics of higher education explains how subsidies fuel rising prices and…

Did you hear? Our top universities gathered their number-one administrators and professors at a secret conclave and, acting as one, created a new device which will "revolutionize" college learning. You've…

Aristophanes was right. He said, "Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you." In other words, no need to be smart and think when…

The Department of Education, like the IRS, is a beneficent and benevolent bureaucracy which only has our best interests at heart and which is in no way political, has decided…