Newmark's Door

"How Stanford Failed the Academic Freedom Test"

Noted scientist and Great Barrington Declaration coauthor Jay Bhattacharya laments what Stanford has become.

"AP Economics is a Model of Academic Rigor"

I'm sorry, but I disagree. At least for micro, the AP curriculum and test seem designed to suck every last bit of joy out of economics. And the "rigor" is partly memorizing a lot of definitions that are dull and unproductive.

"17 Northern Virginia Schools Withheld Merit Awards From Mostly Asian Students As Gov Calls For Legislation"

I would have said this is unbelievable, but in 2023 it seems as though almost anything is possible.

"Don’t blame SATs for American inequality"

Prediction: after all the cool colleges have junked the SAT, once again--yet again--the Law of Unintended Consequences will return with a vengeance.

"Bloated College Administration Is Making Education Unaffordable"

I note that the growth in administration is not solely higher education's fault. Some part of it, maybe most of it, is in response to more regulation and more attempts at micromanaging what goes in higher education. But if we want to lower the cost of higher education developing ways to cut administrators is certainly a good place to start.

See also "Administrators Have Seized the Ivory Tower".

"William & Mary Professors Read Mean Reviews"

Made me laugh.

More:

Wharton: Mean Reviews: Professor Edition

Stanford Professors React to Mean Course Reviews

Harvard Professors Read Mean Comments

"America’s Education System Is So Bad, Even Leftists Are Homeschooling Their Kids"

We'll see if this is temporary or not:

According to the survey, “47% of new homeschoolers skewed left of center self-reporting as either progressive or liberal (vs. 32% pre-Covid homeschoolers).”

"It's good to be the queen"

It is at least if you are the president of the University of Minnesota.

The latest outrage that got my blood boiling was uncovered by a friend and University of Minnesota graduate. He had pointed out an extortion scheme run by the U of M president to get alums to donate $15 million to keep up the president’s mansion. The president is required by contract to live there, and she wants a larger endowment to make it more grand and keep it so. Otherwise she will sell the house.

"The college debt solution: Let kids go to work instead of school"

Sounds reasonable to me.

"The Babylon Bee Publishes a Hysterical Spoof of a College English Course Description. Oh, Wait!"

It's an actual course description  at Kenyon College.

(No kidding. Here's a link to the Kenyon page. Go to ENGL214.)