Bill and Melinda Gates, in their education reform efforts, have drawn the ire of NEA types, RiShawn Biddle at the Capital Research Center points out.

Can the SAT be cool? The makers of this motivational video certainly try.


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It turns out that the gatecrasher who partied at the White House may have had ties to not only the Obamas but also to a professor whom AIA has covered.

Without my kind of energy, you’d need a whole lot more of this flight attendant’s kind of energy to create the “old fashioned” Thanksgiving that so many of us picture when we think of the nationwide holiday.

November 2009
Outsourcing the Constitution?

A law professor who specializes in international legal issues looks at whether the U.S. is sacrificing constitutionalism to global norms.


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Grand Old Partisan

In his acceptance speech, Virginia’s governor-elect, Bob McDonnell, may have quoted the founding fathers more extensively than the last four U. S. presidents combined have in their entire political careers. But then, he also may have made more such references than many teachers do in their working lifetimes.

“You cannot imagine my dismay to learn that the architect of the Van Jones debacle is a Stanford Graduate.” – Tom Flood, Stanford ’66

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With its new guidelines on sex education, UNESCO is doing its characteristic best to compulsively make things worse.

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November 5, 2009 – 6- 8 PM
Armand’s Pizzeria
226 Massachusetts Ave

American Enterprise Institute fellow Steven F. Hayward will discuss his epic chronicle of the presidency of America’s 40th chief executive at Accuracy in Academia’s next author’s night on November 5, 2009. RSVP on Facebook.

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The same type of “Accuracy Crisis” exists in the main stream media and among journalists, just as it does in academia.
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