Plans to evaluate teachers based on student performance and offer merit pay for teachers have gained attention, but they don't go nearly far enough. Today's teaching profession is the product of a mid-20th-century labor model.

The cost of higher education cannot rise faster than incomes indefinitely. Change is coming: it is just a question of when, and in what form.

Increases in college tuition have long outpaced growth in family income, placing higher education out of reach for an increasing number of American families.

Employees who are good at their work ought to be rewarded, recognized, and have the chance to step up into new opportunities and responsibilities.

The education funding system shields schools from "market discipline" and as fees soar, the quality of education gets no better.

In this book, economist Richard Vedder examines the causes of the college tuition crisis and explores ways to reverse this alarming trend.

The excesses atthe Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agencyare typical of the entire system of higher education.

When it comes to making the case for the niche they fill, the for-profit colleges and universities must be more proactive about showing that they do add to the common good, and they must be more transparent about how they do so.