By Matt Reed. Exercise is good for you. It improves physical health, and even improves cognition. It can improve mental health, in some cases. More...

By Matt Reed. Every so often I read an argument that’s delightfully wrong. It’s way off-base, but it’s so earnest and well-intended that I can’t help but engage. This is one of those. More...

By Matt Reed. For-profits are corporations. They operate largely on a corporate model, which assumes employment-at-will and relatively fast turnover. More...

By Matt Reed. Did welfare reform lead to a rise in for-profit education?
I hadn’t connected those dots before, but in retrospect, should have. More...

By Matt Reed. Very smart people sometimes have trouble getting out of their own way.
One of my first acts at Brookdale was to take a form that faculty were required to fill out annually reporting on their professional development activities and reduce it from about six pages to one, consisting of exactly two questions. More...

By Matt Reed. I’m always fascinated when the whole doesn’t equal the sum of its parts. It’s the kind of finding that suggests new questions. More...