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Download full textPreston Cooper – American Enterprise Institute, 2024
Accreditation is a major barrier to higher education reform. Constitutional or not, accreditors are an administrative anomaly: private nonprofit agencies that nonetheless possess life-and-death power over higher education. To maintain federal funding, universities must satisfy the administrative requirements and whims of these unelected entities.…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Educational Change, Educational Innovation, Higher Education
McShane, Michael Q. – American Enterprise Institute, 2021
In education policy, conservatives have often been more identifiable by what they are against than what they are for. Ronald Reagan ran in 1980 promising to eliminate the Department of Education, and since then, numerous conservative politicians have stated they wish to do the same. At times, conservatives have been known to support school choice…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Political Attitudes, Policy Formation, School Choice
Hess, Frederick M., Ed.; Hatalsky, Lanae Erickson, Ed. – American Enterprise Institute, 2018
It feels like an ocean's worth of ink has been dedicated to the rising cost of college. From press coverage to the latest public opinion polls to the drumbeat of proposals for "free college," you could be forgiven for assuming that the only real problem with American higher education is the price tag. And cost is, indeed, a real issue.…
Descriptors: Graduation Rate, College Graduates, Educational Change, Educational Attainment
