Marty Nemko

Last night, I was on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart . What was amazing to me is that they recorded five hours of interview with me about ...

I continue to try to make the case for requiring college to post a substantive report card on themselves as a condition of receiving feder...

This time of year, many people are choosing the colleges and graduate schools to apply to. You'll likely create a wiser list if you ...

Michael Kirst is among our most eminent experts on education policy. He invited me to be guest blogger on his blog at Stanford. In that...

I am frustrated that my ideas have not been implemented, for example, my ideas on how to improve education, a field in which I have solid ...

A friend, Scott Lubbock, sent me one of many notes I've received that describe college graduates's unemployability. (Not to mention...

My new TheAtlantic.com column is titled, The Best Way to Fix Student Aid: Make the Colleges Earn It. It argues that to receive taxpayer-...

The Occupy Wall Streeters are certainly justified in railing against their student loans. College recruitment efforts manipulate students in...

I seem to have gotten nowhere with a rational approach, so here is a more emotional appeal for you to demand that colleges replace their dec...

This animated discussion between a parent and college counselor reveals what parents of college-bound students must know and probably don...

I continue to experiment with ways to get my College Report Card idea to go viral. This time, it's an animation. I'm convinced that...

Here's a three-minute version of my video arguing that perhaps the most potent thing that could be done to improve the quality of colleg...

Here is a video--with lots of visuals with supporting data and photos--in which I make the case for colleges to be required to prominently p...

I knew it couldn't be long before the higher education marketing army started to counterattack the media's recent, powerful excoriat...

I've just talked into my webcam for 13 minutes making the case against college (and graduate school.) I like it because it is an unvarni...

Dear Students and Parents, You've narrowed down to a few colleges. This can help you make the choice wisely. Give each college you'...

In preparation for meetings with legislators, I've developed a proposal for mandating that all colleges post a College Report Card on th...

I just gave a talk at Santa Clara University that I believe makes the most compelling case I've yet made for why higher education is, in...

The new book, Crazy U , tells of a savvy dad's navigating the minefield of trying to make an informed choice about a college and negotia...

Finally, even Harvard's School of Education is recognizing that we send too many students to college. It also has awakened to the truism...