The Five Biggest College Myths | The Daily Ticker - Yahoo! Finance

One of them being that community college is for losers. 

Why I hate school but love education

Pop Quiz: Why Are Tuitions So High? | Investor's Business Daily

Hint: Think Division of Highways.

Overthrow the Universities (and the Public Schools, too) | The Lew Rockwell Show

162. Overthrow the Universities (and the Public Schools, too)

What's Wrong With the American University System | The Atlantic

Plenty say Queens College Professor Andrew Hacker and New York Times reporter Claudia Dreifus in their new book "Higher Education?: Why Colleges Are Wasting Our Money, Failing Our Kids and What We Can Do About It.”

College Degrees More Expensive, Worth Less in Job Market | Yahoo! News

The four-year-degree glut has officially arrived

M.I.T. Calls Academia's Bluff by Gary North

How the Internet has proved a low-cost way to get a "higher" education

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The Degree-System, That Is, Not Higher Learning

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FIRE's open letter to Pres. Obama on speech codes

January 20, 2009

President Barack Obama

The White House

1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW

Washington, DC 20500
Sent via U.S. Mail and Facsimile (202-456-2461)

Dear President Obama:

I write to you on this historic day to offer my heartfelt congratulations on your inauguration. Your achievement is a testament to the enduring promise of our great democracy and the constitutional ideals upon which our nation was founded.

As President of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), I write also to request your assistance in ending abridgements of free speech on our nation's college campuses. Because you have taught constitutional law, you are particularly attuned to the importance of the fundamental freedoms guaranteed by the Bill of Rights. We therefore sincerely hope that you will help to eliminate censorship on college campuses and restore respect for robust expression in higher education.

Like most Americans, you likely would be surprised to learn how often the right to free expression is violated at our nation's colleges and universities, despite the fact that the vitality of these institutions relies upon the free and open exchange of ideas. In just the last year, FIRE has defended basic constitutional freedoms in some truly remarkable cases at both public and private schools.

To read the rest of this letter, go to FIRE's Web site

Why Wal-Mart should get into higher ed

by Gary North

I earned my Ph.D. in 1972. What I am about to describe is academically feasible. It is surely economically feasible.

Wal-Mart should start a college. As with virtually all colleges, it would be called a university. Why? Because of higher perceived value by the consumers.

Why should Wal-Mart bother? Here is a good reason. The total expenditure in the United States on higher education is in the range of a third of a trillion dollars a year. That is a great deal of money. Wal-Mart is not a company to let a large profit opportunity drift by.

You would be hard-pressed to find any industry with this level of income that is less efficient than higher education. If Wal-Mart gets into the field, this will change.

Wal-Mart could offer far lower tuition than any other private university, and lower than 80% of tax-funded universities. All it needs to do is offer what is already available, but which almost no one knows about.

For more on this op/ed, go to LewRockwell.com