Nearly half of the blacks attending colleges and universities considered top of the line are either immigrants, the children of immigrants or biracial.
Monthly Archives For September 2005
Good News about American Education?
A group called the Center on Education Policy has actually issued an upbeat report about education in the United States. How? By downplaying test results.
Disastrous Government Schools
Last
week, President Bush announced a massive
Annual Pope Center Conference Set for Oct. 8
Ohio University Economics professor and author Richard K. Vedder will be the keynote speaker at the annual John W. Pope Center Higher Education Conference, to be held Saturday, Oct. 8, at the Hilton Hotel in Research Triangle Park.
Good News on Free Speech
Professors and students have won a few pivotal victories for academic freedom but, while the good news is welcome, the bad news is…well, a good way to describe most of what is happening in education today.
Frankonomics
At least one economist at Rhode Island College, like too many of her academic counterparts, does not let trends in the economy cloud her economic views.
Academic Inbreeding
By practicing the craft of tracing history that they themselves reject, we can see how we get the revisionist historians who, for better or worse, mostly the latter, now dominate academia
Freshmen Orientation
Going back to school at the end of summer vacation, always a bittersweet experience for college students, now, with politically correct reeducation, can be just bitter.
Dead Greek Guys
After successfully routing the “Dead White Guys” some of us still refer to as America’s founding fathers from classrooms in the United States, the multiculturalists have a new target—ancient philosophers.
Education Myths
Why are we now spending over 500 billion dollars on education annually without much to show for it?