Schools across the nation that are under increasing pressure to raise their students’ test scores now have a choice. They can engage in all that messy and complicated teaching stuff or they can just follow Atlanta’s example and simply change the students’ incorrect answers to the correct ones.

 I am sure that Atlanta Schools Superintendent Beverly Hall . . . → Read More: Widespread fraud in Atlanta student test scores

The message of my book that colleges are charging too much for too little education seems to be gaining some traction, at least with the co-founder of PayPal, who is paying $100,000 each to 24 students to skip college and develop their ideas on their own.

 Peter Thiel understands that higher education is a “bubble” where students . . . → Read More: Entrepreneur pays students NOT to go to college

For nearly 25 years colleges across the country have been permanent construction zones as they raced to build buildings, increase enrollment and enjoy all the additional tuition money, but as any economist will tell you, this is how you build a bubble and bubbles eventually burst.

 Colleges have convinced themselves that offering the latest cool program or . . . → Read More: Some colleges get off the construction treadmill

“Volunteerism” is a major buzzword on college campuses, where administrators set up programs for students who are sent out into their communities to do public service work.

But what kind of work are these kids doing? Well, at Northern Illinois University, one team of students was assigned to paint the house of the college administrator who runs . . . → Read More: Student “volunteers” paint administrator’s house

My book details numerous cases of colleges covering up felonies to protect the college’s “good name,” but the process continues unabated for the same reasons I stated.

Colleges are in such an arms race with each other to attract students that any thing that seems negative is a reason for parents and students to go elsewhere. One of . . . → Read More: Why colleges cover up campus crimes

In my book I list all kinds of abuses that college administrators inflict on their students: high tuition that leads to cripling levels of student debt that pays for an education in which many students emerge as functionally illiterate. But I missed one of the ways colleges rip off their students: unpaid internships.

A recent op-ed in . . . → Read More: Unpaid internships exploit students

College students’ sense of entitlement — they think they deserve high grades for not doing any work and not learning anything — are a common complaint among college teachers.

But they also know that speaking out about it — especially in print — is a career killer and a fast track to a pink slip. Still, some . . . → Read More: Another Professor Speaks Out About Student Entitlement

Foreward Reviews has named The Five-Year Party as a finalist in the education category for its 2010 Book of the Year awards.

Representing more than 350 publishers, the finalists were selected from 1400 entries in 56 categories. These books are examples of independent publishing at its finest.

The winners will be determined by a panel of librarians and . . . → Read More: Five-Year Party named Finalist for Book of the Year

Among the interesting things about writing a controversial book are the people from all over the country who take sides. I get fan mail all the time from people who read my book and loved it. These are mostly parents and professors.

On the other hand there are people who despise me and accuse me of being . . . → Read More: Making enemies I never met