Colleges and universities rarely teach cause and effect anymore and it shows. Consider: George Washington University’s drop in the U. S. News rankings on the heels of its student government wrist slap of its former president for the kind of behavior that drives Republican lawmakers out of office.
Monthly Archives For August 2007
Accountability 101
Miriam Grossman, M.D., author of Unprotected, is fed up with the politically correct expectations of psychiatry, which have led her to avoid discussing the psychological ramifications of faith, promiscuity, abortion, and infertility with her patients at UCLA
Multicultural NCLB
A recent article by Elan Journo of the
Ayn Rand
Institute described how
“transformational
education” is now deeply entrenched in America’s curriculum and
teaching practices.
Paradise LOST
Where academia once tried to give us the best and the brightest, now academics seem to be in a race to be first with the worst, of public policy initiatives that is.
Conflict of Interest
The 2007 NEA Convention, held June 30 through July 5 in Philadelphia, PA, highlighted many social and political considerations ranging from gay rights to global warming to amnesty, but opposed school choice or tax credits for home-schooling parents.
Alger Hiss, Academic Vampire
The liberal cadres that defended him for decades have thinned since career diplomat Alger Hiss was convicted of perjuring himself against accusations that he spied for the Soviet Union. Virtually alone, many academics remain unconvinced.
Campus Dhimmis
New evidence has brought greater credibility to the old truism that multicultural tolerance excludes the campus’ greatest religious pariah, the Christian evangelical.
Sex-Ed Favors Gays
The University of Utah’s College of Health and Family and Consumer Sciences in the Social and Behavioral Sciences College is offering a new course in the spring titled Human Sexuality to educate students about the emotional, physical and social components of sexuality.
Is Plame to Blame?-correction
In this version, we correct an incorrect spelling in the original, in underline and bold.
Tar Heel Schools Tank
Traditional North Carolina public schools will open their doors next week under mounting pressure to perform.