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November 10, 2010

Praise for Raritan Valley Community College

Ashley Thorne

Andrew Hacker, co-author of Higher Education? How Colleges Are Wasting Our Money and Failing Our Kids—And What We Can Do About It, has great things to say about a college near and dear to u......

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November 10, 2010

Colleges Just Can't Avoid Rising Costs

George Leef

That, anyway, is an explanation we sometimes hear from the higher education establishment. Colleges are supposedly helpless victims of rising costs, particular because rising productivity elsewhere......

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November 10, 2010

Forecast: Iridescent Drops of Nothingness

Peter Wood

Peter Wood predicts that online education, either rigorous or at “the level of a video game,” will become a standard feature of American college instruction.

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November 10, 2010

The Sustainability Inquisition

Ashley Thorne

Colleges and universities are now assessing faculty members' work in and commitment to sustainability.

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November 9, 2010

On the Understanding of Economics

George Leef

A recent Pope Center article in which a number of economics professors explained why they find that students comprehend the subject better if they avoid mathematics and focus exclusively on the logi......

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