Academic Perspective

Americans have become acutely aware of the cost of attending college in the past few years. Tuition had been rising faster than household income even before the recession. Post-recession, income is harder to come by, savings have dwindled, and university endowments, the pool of donations that often fund professorships and scholarships, have shrunk. In a [...]

A Declaration of Independence from CollegeBoard When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to condemn the academic bonds which have connected them with another and to assume, among the rights of the Earth, the fair and just treatment to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle [...]

It was an awfully brisk night in January, not seven days removed from the New Year’s beginning. We had been staying with a family friend as my mom had given up our house. They gave us a lift to Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, not far from Nairobi, the capital. I remember how stressed my mother [...]

On Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009 Republican Chris Christie was elected Governor of New Jersey, beating Democratic incumbent John Corzine by 5.6% of the vote. But Christie’s vague, empty campaign has provided minimal answers as to how the State budget will be balanced. What will New Jersey look like if Christie’s few real solutions come to fruition?

A clear gap has emerged between students of low-income and high-income families. Because of general economic imbalances between caucasians and black in the United States, criticisms of America’s schools are frequently characterized by racial arguments. Whether it is simply correlation or true causality, our schools are, without doubt, failing black students. This phenomenon is especially [...]

The American ideal of democracy is what has promoted the success of many of our public services. But our beloved democracy has turned into a destructive sphere of a bureaucracy in public education, impeding much-needed progress and reform through conflicting layers of centralized authority. This system must be restructured to localize and decentralize power in order for valuable educational reform to take place.