Purdue president Mitch Daniels’ efforts to keep Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States out of Indiana public schools while serving as governor of the state has drawn a predictable academic outcry.
Monthly Archives For July 2013
Colleges Still Avoiding Evaluations
The teacher preparation report conducted by the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ), was not well-received by the academic community.
Obama Must Have Watched PBS
President Obama’s recent extemporaneous remarks about Ho Chi Minh being a Jeffersonian Democrat may be the result of his viewing the PBS series entitled Vietnam: A Television History (1983).
Spinning Homeland Security
We found an academic who actually defends the U. S. Homeland Security policy, not an easy thing to do.
Lessons From Federalist 7
Did the National Security Agency scandal have its roots in academia?
Alger Hiss’s Teachable Moments
The tendency of academic elites to embrace America’s enemies is not a new one. Indeed, the academic imprimatur on any person, place or thing should give one pause.
Cheating To The Test
Cheating on tests has reached such epidemic proportions that even the National School Boards Association (NSBA) is taking notice of it.
Atlas Shrugs in Detroit
In my native city of Detroit, Atlas has at long last shrugged.
How Elites Subvert Policy
Elites, particularly academic ones, think that foreign policy is too important to be left to the American public, but the reverse may be true.
Porn in the Dorms
A recent study features information on pornography that the average collegiate is unlikely to ever encounter on campus.