Poor teaching != indoctrination
The response to the AAUP’s statement Freedom in the Classroom (released September 11) has been fascinating, from Peter Wood and Stephen Balch’s tendentious attempt to fisk the report (thereby burying the legitimate criticisms) to Erin O’Connor’s more focused criticism to Stanley Fish‘s column this Sunday, where he takes the statement (rightly) to task for an inane […]
Sloppy reporting on college tuition
Michael Kirst’s blog is fairly typical in misreporting tuition trends: The College Board just reported that the average price for a college education once again rose faster than the inflation rate this year, particularly at public four-year institutions The cost of attending college is rising, as is student debt, but there are two ways in […]