When journalists retire to academia, they often find a new audience there. Those new followers, though, can be just as easily misled as the old readers and viewers.
Monthly Archives For August 2011
Extracurricular Intimidation
Recently, some pedagogues have found new outlets for intimidation.
Another Executive Overreach
U. S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan “will unilaterally override the centerpiece requirement of the No Child Left Behind school accountability law, that 100 percent of students be proficient in math and reading by 2014.”
Wasted Space
If the administration wants to get our economy out of the tank, maybe it should stop funding $1.5 million indoctrination programs!
Re CAP & Review
Throughout last week, this writer studied the education policy studies put out by the Center for American Progress (CAP) and by a variety of authors and writers from different educational fields and expertise.
Malcolm Kline on InsideAcademia.tv
Malcolm Kline joins Andy Nash for a conversation about higher education and Accuracy in Academia.
Catholic Professor Misinforms on Abortion
A professor at a Catholic college may have been spreading misinformation on abortion for at least two years, in various public appearances and blogs.
CAP Learns from the Past
William Slotnik authored the Center for American Progress (CAP) report, titled “Levers for Change: Pathways for State-to-District Assistance in Underperforming School Districts,” that details how states and districts should interact to save struggling public schools and avoid the problems of past interventions.
Worthy of Note
Washington Examiner columnist Noemie Emery, who writes some of the most thoughtful think pieces around, offered an interesting commentary on what cerebral folks like to call the Zeitgeist—loosely translated as spirit of the times.
Lesser of two evils
“It seems to me, however, that we are safer with the government encouraging science teaching than with an administration getting into the humanities.”—Eva Brann, former dean of St. John’s College in Annapolis, in the Summer 2011 issue of the Claremont Review of Books.
Book Review
Book Review: Is ‘The Dying Citizen’ a Prediction of America’s Future?
America’s ongoing and seemingly-constant crises have left Americans scrambling to find a sense of normalcy and safety. Just in time, to cut through the chaotic bombardment of conflicting messages and opinions while providing a voice…
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