Seven Ways the Department of Education Has Made Higher Ed Worse — The James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal

The Department of Education has had, so far as I can see, no positive impact on higher education and has either caused or ignored numerous negative effects. Thus it is a tragedy that the skeptics about creating it did not prevail back in 1979.

Oct 28, 2015 Richard K. Vedder Testifying before the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee recently, I was asked by Senator Claire McCaskill (D-MO) if, with respect to higher education, I would favor eliminating the U.S. Department of Education. She was aghast when I said "yes." Before I go into the damage our national educational ministry has done to higher education, it is worth reviewing its creation in 1979. The Democrats then controlled all of the federal government, with large congressional majorities. The party had promised to create the Department in its 1976 platfo

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