Currently, the FBI director is scratching his head trying to figure out how many agents cheated on their agency exams. All of us might ponder where this drive to take what was once deemed an unacceptable shortcut comes from.
“Eighty percent of high school students admit to cheating,” Caroline Crocker of the American Institute for Technology [...]

The Education Establishment appears to be engaged in a similar exercise when it tries to explain dropout rates and other such problematic measurements.


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This has been a busy summer for academics seeking to silence dissent on campus.

An Augusta State University grad student has sued the school after she said she was threatened with dismissal for refusing to participate in a “remediation” program to increase her tolerance of gays and lesbians.

July 2010
Beating Summer Reading Blues

Summer reading suggestions from Accuracy in Academia that probably won’t overlap those of most universities.


Bureaucratic Blueprint

Dutch Country Educational Drama

Call it a mystery with a moral but first-time novelist John DeFrank delivers both with stunning success in Condemned to Freedom, set in a public school in the Pennsylvania Dutch Country.

“We are the only great power in history who, upon arriving on a foreign shore, first asks the question ‘what’s the exit strategy?’”

—Dr. Charles Krauthammer at The Fund for American Studies conference in April.

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A Montana school district would like to distribute a primer on sex to the age group which usually gets primers. Read more.

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Date: June 21 – 6 – 8 PM
Armand’s Capitol Pizzeria
226 Massachusetts Ave, NE
Washington, D.C.

Join former Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell and Ken Klukowski, an attorney for the American Civil Rights Union, at the next Accuracy in Academia’s author’s night. They will discuss their book, The Blueprint: Obama’s Plan to Subvert the Constitution and Build an Imperial Presidency. RSVP on Facebook or contact Sarah Schaerr Norton.

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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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