Something happened to the labor movement when it went from blue collar to white collar. This is nowhere more apparent than in the various teachers’ and professors’ unions.
Monthly Archives For August 2013
Mentoring the Misled
A businessman talks about the disconnect that occurs when professors try to guide their students through a marketplace that they don’t understand themselves.
College Paper’s Sleeper Circulation
Daily Illini at the University of Illinois may have come up with the best reason for eliminating one edition of the paper—sleeping students.
Big Brother Gets Personal
FRONT ROYAL, VA — Four years ago, Obama’s Chicago crew borrowed a page from the Three-Card-Monte hustlers in Manhattan’s Central Park.
George Washington Skipped Here
If the father of our country saw some of the courses available at the university that bears his name, he might have never left Mount Vernon.
Financial Aid for Wealthy
One-third of the students who get financial aid come from families who make $100,000 or more a year.
Century of Dubious Achievements
“As summer becomes fall, we commence the 100th anniversary of that most glorious of all the violations of the United States Constitution, the Federal Reserve.” Seth Lipsky, The American Spectator, September 2013.
What Parents Want
In a recent survey and study published by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, which focuses on education issues and public policy, parents were split as to their priorities in K-12 education.
Celebrate Life, Liberty, the pursuit of happiness and free pizza on Constitution Day
Celebrate Life, Liberty, the pursuit of happiness and free pizza on Constitution Day with Accuracy in Academia along with special guests.
Advocacy Journalism Gone Wild
Aligning themselves with dubious foreign movements is nothing new for America’s elite journalists.