20 Great Articles and Essays about Education

The best short articles and essays on education -- interesting writing on the education system from around the web

College


The University Has No Clothes by Daniel B. Smith

A critical review of the spate of prominent attacks aimed at college education

Learning by Degrees by Rebecca Mead

A strong argument against measuring the value of a degree in purely economic terms

In the Basement of the Ivory Tower by Professor X

An anonymous instructor at a low-end college makes the case that university isn’t for everyone

Bad Education by Malcolm Harris

Last August, student loans surpassed credit cards as the nation's single largest source of debt, edging ever closer to $1 trillion....

Lost in the Meritocracy by Walter Kirn

Percentile is destiny in America. Your fate decided by a test that measures... what, exactly?

The Future of College? by Graeme Wood

A brash tech entrepreneur thinks he can reinvent higher education by stripping it down to its essence, eliminating lectures and tenure along with football games, ivy-covered buildings, and research libraries

Laptop U by Nathan Heller

Has the future of college moved online?

The Order of Things by Malcolm Gladwell

What college rankings really tell us

The Teaching Class by Rachel Riederer

Teaching college is no longer a middle-class job, and everyone paying tuition should care

The World Might Be Better Off Without College for Everyone by Bryan Caplan

Students don't seem to be getting much out of higher education

Getting in


Getting In by Malcolm Gladwell

How and why Ivy League admission practices are designed to keep top schools WASP.

The Early- Decision Racket by James Fallows

How the early-decision programmes distort the application process in favour of the privileged.

The Dean’s Daughter Gets a Thin Envelope
by Jennifer Britz

A college dean reflects on rejection from both ends.
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