COVID-19 Gutted College Attendance. Now, a Solid Labor Market Is Convincing More High School Grads To Skip It.
The number of high school seniors going on to attend college has plummeted in the past two years, deepening the already steady decline.
College Admissions
American Council of Education Claims Ending Racial Preferences in College Admissions Would Chill Speech
Do First Amendment claims about racial preferences hold water?
MIT Reinstates Standardized Testing Requirements for Admissions
Doing away with standardized testing doesn't help low-income applicants gain entry to elite colleges.
Lawsuit From Former Students Alleges Financial Aid Price Fixing at Elite Universities
Federal subsidies for higher education lead to market distortions that affect financially needy students.
Getting Rid of the SAT Won't Diversify Higher Ed. Expanding School Choice Will.
Giving kids more educational options would help produce the long-term change activists want.
Affirmative Action in College Admissions Will Be on California's Ballot in November
A November ballot initiative would pit minority communities against each other.
Federal Prosecutors Are Punishing Actor Lori Loughlin for Exercising Her Right To Defend Herself
Plea deals aren’t about mercy these days. They’re about intimidating defendants into giving up the right to a trial.
Harvard Discriminates Against Asian-Americans, and 'Implicit' Bias Training Won't Fix That
Race-based admissions will likely make a return visit to the Supreme Court.
Democrats Love To Promise Free College, So Why Did the U.K. Recently Start Charging Tuition?
When Britain reversed its free college program and asked its citizens to foot a portion of their college bill, more working class people got degrees.
Harvard University Cancels Kyle Kashuv
A social media mob successfully persuades Harvard to rescind the admission of a conservative Parkland survivor.
Felicity Huffman, 13 Others Plead Guilty in College Admissions Scandal
"I want to apologize to the students who work hard every day to get into college."
Universities Play the Victim in Admissions Scandal, but They're Far From Blameless
Higher education is a moral mess.
Time to Put the College Admissions System on a Rocket and Shoot It Into the Sun
Cheating scandal should have taxpayers asking whether it's right to subsidize the campus party lifestyles of celebrity scions who fake water polo careers.
Michelle Obama Felt 'the Shadow of Affirmative Action' as Princeton Undergrad
Her experience is a good example of why affirmative action policies are a bad idea.
Let Competition, Not Law, Determine Who Gets Into Harvard
The most sensible and effective way to police private college admissions practices isn't litigation or regulation, but competition.
College Isn't Higher Education and May No Longer Be the Best Way to Deliver the Goods
Many Americans are said to be turning against higher education. They may just be sick of an expensive and dysfunctional model that's outlived its usefulness.
Chicago Schools to Students: Submit to Our Choices for Your Futures or No Diploma
Seniors must choose from a list of acceptable post-school plans, or they won't graduate.
Harvard's Asian-American Quota Turns Diversity on Its Head
College puts the brakes on rewarding the educational successes of a minority group.
Challenging Affirmative Action and Gerrymandering: AEI's Edward Blum
Pending court cases pertaining to race-based legislation.
Affirmative Action is a Lost Cause
But there are better ways for progressives to advance racial justice
Racial Preferences in Universities Won't Work in a Diverse America
They will also splinter the Democrats' minority base
Number of Foreign Students Attending US Colleges Reaches All-Time High
More than 800,000 of them
Racial Preferences Could Backfire On Minorities
Why the Supreme Court shouldn't overturn Michigan's Prop 2