Essays about Texas

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Tuesday, September 24, 2019

Like driving into a CAT 5 hurricane, the Department of Education is taking the student-loan program toward catastrophe

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I lived in Houston when Hurricane Rita hit the Gulf Coast in 2005. Weather forecasters predicted that Rita would make landfall in Galveston ...
Saturday, September 21, 2019

"Impeach the mother f--ker": Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib, vulgar discourse, and a personal apology

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Almost everyone agrees that public discourse has become cruder, especially public discourse in the political arena. Congresswoman Rashida Tl...
Friday, September 20, 2019

Student Debt Only Went Up 2 Percent Last Year! (Is This a Good News-Bad News Joke?)

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An airline pilot, flying a transoceanic route, made an announcement over the intercom to the passengers. "I have some good news and bad...
Thursday, September 19, 2019

The enrollment crash is an existential threat to liberal arts colleges: Bucknell VP Bill Conley's insightful essay

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Bill Conley, Vice President for Enrollment Management at Bucknell University, wrote a perceptive essay for Chronicle of Higher Education  a...
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Monday, September 16, 2019

Higher education leaders oppose Democrats' proposal for free college: Why?

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College tuition has risen faster than the rate of inflation for the past quarter-century. While wages have remained stagnant, the cost of go...
Thursday, September 12, 2019

Overbuilt "luxury" student housing: Speculators are turning university towns into slums

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The  Commercial Observer  ran a story a few days ago about a financial crisis in the so-called luxury student-housing market. As reported by...
Sunday, September 8, 2019

Wall Street Journal decries "The Great Student-Loan Scam": But the flimflam is even worse than WSJ describes

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Last month, the Wall Street Journal published an editorial titled "The Great Student-Loan Scam," in which the newspaper excoriate...
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