When a major American city has a crisis, the entire region can be impacted.

In the Michigan city of Ann Arbor, University of Michigan student Derek Draplin shares a few thoughts about Detroit’s recent bankruptcy.

…The debt problem is obviously the city’s next biggest problem. With nearly $19 billion in debt, Detroit struggles...

File this story under “Free Market Success”.

Would you be amazed learn that a college dropout made nearly four billion dollars in one day this week? Well, it happened.

Would you be a little less amazed if I told you that the guy who made that those billions is Mark Zuckerberg–the founder and...

Allie Grasgreen of Inside Higher Ed has the details:

Louisiana Tech University’s agreement this week to stop using learning materials that limit access for students with visual disabilities...

Based on the stories we cover at College Insurrection, bathroom use has clearly become the new civil rights battleground.

The U.S. Department of Justice’s latest cause – fighting for a transgendered California n...

The United Nations has been asked to investigate Chicago school closings for potential human rights violations.

Given the amount of gang violence in the city, if investigators do go, they might want to take a few of their Peacekeepers with them.  The Daily Caller Education Editor Eric Owens has the story:

Noted American terrorist...

The police officer who was fired after a video of him pepper spraying students at an “Occupy” rally at the University of California – Davis (UCD) went viral is now demanding workers compensation for “psychiatric injury” he claims to have subsequently suffered.

Oliver Darcy of Campus reform offers the details:

Documents obtained by...

The philospher Sophocles one said, “I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.”

That seems to be in contrast with the approach taken by educators in the wake of “No Child Left Behind”.

Cheating on tests has reached such epidemic proportions that even the National School Boards Association (NSBA) is...

Easy access to student loans is one of the biggest contributors to the Higher Education Bubble.

One North Carolina representative gets that, and displays a little free market savvy, in recent comments related to student loan programs:

The federal government should have no role in trying to make college affordable, Rep. Virginia Foxx...

File this story under “Our Tax Dollars at Work”.

The U.S. Department of Education has officially opened an investigation into allegations that an Arizona high school’s campus-wide “Redneck Day” amounted to a federal civil rights violation.

The kerfuffle giving rise to the investigation arose back in May at Queen Creek High School on...

Despite Rolling Stone’s attempt to present Boston Bomber suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev as a teen idol, one young American woman has an entirely different take on how child-killing terrorists should be viewed.

Providence College student Christine Rousselle shares her thoughts in TheCollegeConservative:

I have a classification of human beings that I use only in...

Nowadays, with more and more children staying home after they graduate from college, parents are wondering when their nest will be empty.

Jed Kolko, Chief Economist and VP of Analytics at Trulia (a noted real estate research firm) crunches the numbers and shares some troubling findings.

During the recession, fewer households – one...

The U.S. Senate on just approved legislation to link interest rates on student loans to the market, which would cut rates in the short term but potentially allow them to rise significantly within a few years.

The margin of the vote, 81 to 18, surprised supporters of the bipartisan compromise, given numerous...

Sometimes people learn more for failures than successes.

A recent example of this involves a college prep academy where students participated in a college-level massive open online algebrA course — MOOC but didn’t have sufficient computer access and nobody realized it for three weeks.

That all sounds like a fiasco. However, Lieutenant Colonel...

One South Carolina public university is going “James Bond”, in terms of school security.

Oliver Darcy of Campus Reform explains:

Administrators at a public university in South Carolina announced earlier this month it will become one of the first schools in the world to equip its campus buildings with eye scanners.

On Monday, Winthrop...

USA Today just conducted a poll that young Americans may not be such “low information voters” after all.

Young people increasingly look down on politics as useless and think only losers choose a life of government work, a pessimistic new poll found.

The study, which was conducted by USA Today, concluded that only...

It seems that private firms aren’t the only ones affected when regulations thwart innovation.

Some California researchers were on a “fast track” to funding, which got derailed by institutional rules.  Inside Higher Ed writer Scott Jaschik explains:

These days many research universities are constantly looking for new grant competitions and encouraging their faculty...

It is easy to despair for young Americans, who are literally selling themselves to fund their college education.

But it doesn’t have to be this way.

Rebekah Bell, a recent graduate of Biola University in California, discusses how it is possible to graduate with a college degree and little to no student debt.

The...

A Maryland judge has just refused to dismiss a lawsuit against Morgan State University involving an attack of a student by fellow scholar and alleged cannibal, Alex...

Where will the Republican Party look for solid, successful leadership?

Knox College student Alex Uzarowicz opines that it is from the GOP list of state governors:

…Love him or hate him, Governor Rick Snyder from Michigan turned a dismal deficit into a surplus. He reversed a $1.5 billion deficit to a close $500...

There is an adage that goes, “You get the behavior you reward, not the behavior you want.”

CalWatchdog contributor Chris Reed explores this concept, looking at how the California school system funds institutions based on the number of troubled students they have.

But one specific example of adults-always-first school policies has always especially...

Detroit is a shiny example of  one of the many cities, and even a few states, which are sinking under the burden of debt brought about by public service union contracts.

How did it get this way and what can be done about it?

In this week’s video, Philip Howard, attorney and founder...

Princeton mom Susan A. Patton detonated a feminist advice  bomb when she wrote a letter recommending young women find husbands before they graduate.

And while progressive feminists deride Patton’s assertions, it looks like the Ivy League mom is laughing all the way to the bank.

Susan Patton, a Princeton alumna whose son currently...