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Dropping the SATs Is an Excuse to Drop Standards

Virginia Postrel | 2.25.2001 12:00 AM

Murky facts in MIT study

Cathy Young | 2.14.2001 12:00 AM

Fuzzy math on women

Cathy Young | 2.7.2001 12:00 AM

Dimness at Noon

Blue Angel, by Francine Prose

Alan Kors | 12.1.2000 12:00 AM

Ivory Tower Terror

Jeff Taylor | 11.1.2000 12:00 AM

Civil Liberties

Texas' Big Test

Jerry Jesness | 11.1.2000 12:00 AM

Balance Sheet

Jeff Taylor | 10.1.2000 12:00 AM

Brickbats

Charles Oliver | 10.1.2000 12:00 AM

Balance Sheet

Jeff Taylor | 8.1.2000 12:00 AM

Diversity Math

Mike Lynch | 5.1.2000 12:00 AM

One-Track Mind

Brian Doherty | 4.1.2000 12:00 AM

Civil Liberties

Thought Reform 101

The Orwellian implications of today's college orientation.

Alan Kors | 3.1.2000 12:00 AM

The New College Try

Nick Gillespie | 12.1.1999 12:00 AM

Striving for Parity

The insidious logic behind the SAT's "striver" measure

Nick Gillespie | 11.1.1999 12:00 AM

Fee Fighters

Should students be forced to subsidize campus activism?

RiShawn Biddle | 11.1.1999 12:00 AM

Brickbats

Charles Oliver | 10.1.1999 12:00 AM

Certified Success

Jeff Taylor | 10.1.1999 12:00 AM

Generational Striving

Nick Gillespie | 9.26.1999 12:00 AM

Balance Sheet

Jeff Taylor | 8.1.1999 12:00 AM

Contract Clause

Mariel Garza | 8.1.1999 12:00 AM

Choice Moves

Mike Lynch | 8.1.1999 12:00 AM

Reasonable Doubts: Title IX's Invisible Ink

How the Supreme Court made up "student-on-student" harassment law

Walter Olson | 8.1.1999 12:00 AM

Brickbats

Charles Oliver | 7.1.1999 12:00 AM

Cracking the speech code

When the University of Wisconsin sat down to evaluate its repressive faculty speech code, nobody expected free speech to win. Here's how it happened.

Alan Kors | 7.1.1999 12:00 AM

Why Johnny Can't Fail

How the "floating standard" has destroyed public education

Jerry Jesness | 7.1.1999 12:00 AM

Letters

Reason Staff | 7.1.1999 12:00 AM

Brickbats

Charles Oliver | 6.1.1999 12:00 AM

Balance Sheet

Jeff Taylor | 5.1.1999 12:00 AM

Voucher Victory

Mike Lynch | 4.1.1999 12:00 AM

Selected Skirmishes: The Education Precedent

School reform flunks its history test.

Thomas W. Hazlett | 4.1.1999 12:00 AM

Civil Liberties

Earthquake in P.C. Land

Jonathan Rauch | 3.6.1999 12:00 AM

Cheating Teachers

Mike Lynch | 3.1.1999 12:00 AM

Home-Invasion Ruling

Mariel Garza | 3.1.1999 12:00 AM

Davis' 4 Percent Plan No Path to Diversity

Mike Lynch | 2.15.1999 12:00 AM

Brickbats

Charles Oliver | 2.1.1999 12:00 AM

Civil Liberties

Codes of Silence

Who's silencing free speech on campus--and why.

Alan Kors and Harvey Silverglate | 11.1.1998 12:00 AM

Profs' Proposals

Nick Gillespie | 7.1.1998 12:00 AM

Head Count

Rick Henderson | 6.1.1998 12:00 AM

Civil Liberties

Preferential Treatment

Nick Gillespie | 3.1.1998 12:00 AM

Civil Liberties

Reasonable Doubts: Title IX from Outer Space

How federal law is killing men's college sports

Walter Olson | 2.1.1998 12:00 AM

"Racial Preferences Are Dead."

Anti-quota activist Ward Connerly on the end of affirmative action

Mike Lynch | 2.1.1998 12:00 AM

Civil Liberties

Colorblind Affirmative Action

Brian Doherty | 12.1.1997 12:00 AM

UCLA's Loyalty Oath

Mike Lynch | 3.10.1997 12:00 AM

Civil Liberties

Martyr Me, Please

Campus lefties try to stamp out alternative viewpoints, but end up looking stupid.

Ed Carson | 8.1.1996 12:00 AM

End Games

John Hood | 2.1.1996 12:00 AM

Race & the Numbers Racket

The future of affirmative action may depand on a California ballot initiative--and the initiative's fate may depend on numbers the state's universities would rather not release.

Charles Oliver | 8.1.1995 12:00 AM

Education: Up the Academy

Clinton's college-aid hikes would help schools, not students.

John Hood | 5.1.1995 12:00 AM

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