Recent economic research suggests that colleges siphon off a significant portion of federal education aid rather than lowering costs to students

Just when it looked like the job market was going to rebound, recent unemployment numbers revealed a disappointing reality.

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.

For most of 2012, President Obama has been running in the Democratic primary. I know that seems odd, given that he’s essentially running unopposed. But that's not what I'm talking about.

I don’t know how many times I’ve seen liberal commentators look back with nostalgia to the days when a young man fresh out of high school or military service could get a well-paying job on an assembly line at a unionized auto factory that could carry him through to a...

The haves in our society are increasingly cocooned in a system that makes it easy for their children to continue to be haves. That said, four steps might weaken the isolation of, at least, the children of the new upper class.

We are still suffering from the bursting of the housing bubble and now some people see signs that another bubble is bursting--the higher education bubble.

As critics see it, the loss of our common culture is a result not of cultural changes but of shifts in policy and the economy. There are two problems with this line of argument.