Rebecca VanderMeulen

Columnist Robert J. Samuelson recently argued in The Washington Post that educators and policymakers should stop encouraging every student to go to college.

He’s right.

Bachelor’s degrees aren’t for everybody. All people should have the opportunity to attend a four-year college, assuming they have the right qualifications. But the pervasive idea that one has [...]

What with the ongoing economic downturn, rising economic equality in America and the continuing Occupy Wall Street protests, it should come as no surprise that lots of people in this country are angry at our country’s wealthiest – the “1 percent.”

I, too, could be angry at those who grew up in families that [...]