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The Threat to Independent Education: Public Subsidies and Private Colleges
Source: Cato Institute
Author: Gary Wolfram
City: Washington, State: DC, Country: United States

The case against direct university subsidies. While Wolfram suggests that subsidies still be given to students, his argument for requiring universities to charge equal-cost or above-cost tuitions is correct.

Thought reform 101
Source: Reason
Author: Alan Charles Kors
Country: United States

With orientation classes, nagging, and guilt, American colleges try to make students think the "right" way. (3/00)

A look at the the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education
Source: Education-consumers.com
Author: John E. Stone
Country: United States

The National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE), founded in 1954, is the largest accreditor of teacher training programs in the U.S. Its standards are fast becoming the national norm. Whether this development favors reform or strengthens the status quo, however, is a question that deserves to be carefully examined.

Human capital contracts: Equity-like instruments for financing higher education
Source: Cato Institute
Author: Miguel Palacios
Country: United States

Palacios examines human capital contracts which are "equity-like" financial instruments used for financing higher education. (12/16/02)

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