The chief obstacle to ROTC's expansion today is not antimilitary sentiment but a Pentagon that prefers to allocate its resources to surer recruiting prospects, primarily in the South and the Midwest.

A new study shows that public universities trounce the private ones in terms of the percentage return on investment.

The age of humility and second opinions is coming.

Barack Obama's appointments come from the new American meritocracy--no longer the old white male elite that emerged from the Ivy League a half-century ago.

In a recent post, American Enterprise Institute (AEI) education expert Andrew Kelly highlights a notable trend: prestigious academic institutions are beginning to offer open, online courses. Kelly explains that if employers and less prestigious colleges begin to accept the credit earned in these...

The number of schools ranked highly in guides such as Barron's Profiles of American Colleges is increasing, without any evidence that these schools' instructional quality is also increasing. Applicants and their families should be wary of letting these rankings serve as the main criteria in their college decisions.

Bringing ROTC to the Ivy Leagues would be a great start, but bridging the military's deepening geographic and cultural divide will require a much greater effort.

Conjuring fear of Nazism and anti-Semitism, Jews recoil from the thought that Judaism might be a race, but medical geneticist Harry Ostrer insists the 'biological basis of Jewishness' cannot be ignored.    In his new book, “Legacy: A Genetic History of the Jewish People,” Harry Ostrer, a medical geneticist...