The move towards distance education leaves many professors feeling left out and their resistance typifies their attitude towards educational progress, according to the authors of a new book
Monthly Archives For September 2004
NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND?
Despite the harsh criticism this election season has spawned of President George W. Bush’s No Child Left Behind (NCLB), progress is being made, according to its proponents.
From Abject To Zinn
In his new book, Intellectual Morons, author Dan Flynn gives us a handy reference guide to 16 opinion leaders whose own conclusions were dubiously arrived at, and widely accepted, particularly in academia.
Brainwashing 101: The Movie
Filmmaker Evan Coyne Maloney’s first effort is essential viewing for those who believe that the politically correct campus is a myth.
Anti-American Idol at UT Austin
When conservative students at the University of Texas (UT) at Austin created a satiric scholarship to reward anti-Americanism, those young Tories named it after a journalism professor at the school who richly deserves the recognition.
A New Prescription for Public Schools
Our public school system, regardless of increasing budgets, continues to go down the tubes.
Campus Book Store Bias
You may not be able to judge a book by its cover but you can tell a lot about a college by the titles it stocks in its bookstore.
Bring Him On?
Michael Moore is coming to Utah, whether it wants him or not.
ACLU & NCC Civil Liberties Failure
Although the religious freedom of students and teachers in public schools is under attack nationwide, the victims of the onslaught receive scant support, if not outright opposition, from two groups that should be natural allies in defense of the constitutional right to freedom of religion.
Broadcasting Bias, Boston College-Style
Read how a student stopped a professor’s anti-“McCarthyism” lecture cold by asking a factual question.