Patrick Gibbons
Higher-education bubble
Table 1: U.S. housing price index vs. U.S. higher education tuition Source: Dr. Mark Perry, George Mason University My latest article on higher education budget cuts…
Inside the numbers
Taking a closer look at higher-ed math — it needs it!
Gibbons earns a B
Governor Jim Gibbons may have lost a primary election to Brian Sandoval and he may be out of the office with a broken pelvis, but at least he…
Klaich: We're not fat, we're big boned
*To Nevada System of Higher Education Chancellor Klaich, employing one person for every 5.9 students is not bloat. News 4 in Reno lets Chancellor Dan Klaich get…
More teachers
President Obama wants public schools to hire 10,000 new math teachers nationwide. Andrew Coulson of the Cato Institute asks why? The last few million new public school…
Right to economic freedom
Capitalist Hollywood hates capitalism
To merit pay or not to merit pay
A new Vanderbilt University study on merit pay – the most rigorous ever conducted – shows that a merit-pay plan in Tennessee had no statistically significant impact…
Unions have lost the war of ideas
With the upcoming nationwide release of the education documentary “Waiting for Superman” by director Davis Guggenheim (Inconvient Truth) – which takes a critical look at the failure of American…