Jennifer Washburn
Recent articles by Jennifer Washburn
The Tuition Crunch
For low-income students college is increasingly out of reach.
The At-Risk-Youth Industry
Private companies that run prisons and treatment centers for juveniles have turned out not to be very good at making money or rehabilitating kids.
The Kept University
Commercially sponsored research is putting at risk the paramount value of higher education—disinterested inquiry. Even more alarming, the authors argue, universities themselves are behaving more and more like for-profit companies.