Author’s Note: When Cameron Elementary School Principal George Towery retired in 2010, I wrote the following column about his accomplishments and his leadership. In a […]
Education Reform
With students packing up to go back to college this month with declared or undeclared majors, it’s a good time to consider the fields that […]
How do Virginia’s public higher-ed institutions rate on the goals established in the 2005 Restructuring Act and embedded in state code? The data is incomplete. […]
The General Assembly enacted the 2005 Restructuring Act with the idea of holding public universities accountable to a set of performance metrics. Many measures have […]
In 2005, when leaders of Virginia’s most prestigious universities were angling for more autonomy from state control, they complained about the bureaucratic hoops they had to […]
Household debt surpassed its 2008 recession peak in the first quarter of 2017, according to a recent report from the Federal Reserve Bank of New […]