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November 12, 2013

Why Do Students Drop Out of MOOCs?

Rachelle Peterson

Ninety percent or more of MOOC registrants will fail to complete their courses, often because of the impersonal, sterile atmosphere. 

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November 6, 2013

From Each According to His Earnings

George Leef

Making student loan repayments contingent on graduates' income would encourage more weak students to take out loans they can't repay, writes George Leef.

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November 1, 2013

Catholic Scholars Take Stand Opposing the Common Core

National Association of Scholars

A group of 132 Catholic professors have urged bishops in the United States to reject the Common Core K-12 State Standards for Catholic schools in their dioceses.

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October 31, 2013

Rotten to the Core?

George Leef

A Pope Center report finds UNC-Chapel Hill's general education curriculum stuffed with trendy, politicized courses.

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October 30, 2013

A College President Defends Free Speech

Peter Wood

Amherst College president Biddy Martin turned down a request to dissociate the College from the writings of campus speaker Hadley Arkes. 

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