Thursday, March 4, 2010

Must Reads: 03/04/10

George Leef's post-debate comments:
If we want to get serious about improving our economy’s productivity, there are many, many things that would help. Governments massively divert resources away from productive, competitively determined uses and into unproductive, politically determined uses; they interfere with efficiency with innumerable laws and regulations; they drive away investors and entrepreneurs with high taxes.

The list of changes that would make the American economy stronger is extremely long, but putting more people through college is not among them.
Higher Ed experts urge Duncan to tackle transfer policies.
If we expect to improve student success, it is time to examine the process by which sending and receiving institutions manage the transfer function to ensure an easier and less costly progression by students.
Kevin Carey on the non-transparency of accreditation.

No comments:

Post a Comment