The startling thing about the books academics typically dismiss as relics of the past is the uncanny manner in which they anticipate the present.
Monthly Archives For April 2014
Liberals Want Good Teachers
A hot-button issue among educators appears to be “equitable access” to effective teachers, a buzzword at a recent event at the Center for American Progress (CAP).
The Conservatives’ Big Tent
Conservatives Outnumber Liberals in 47 States, Professor Says
English Professors Moral Panic
If you love literature, you might find it easier to actually buy it than take a course in it.
Judge Promotes Conservative Professor
While Americans fume about the sidelining of Mozilla’s Brendan Eich, another conservative is getting some long-awaited payback. It took eight years, but Dr. Mike Adams, associate professor at the University of North Carolina-Wilmington, finally won the…
Gender Pay Data Gap
On Monday, at the Center for American Progress (CAP), a trio of scholars alternately claimed that there is a gender pay gap and insisted that we need to pass laws to get data to prove that there is.
Progressives Deconstructed
And about time. “I’d rather talk about Luddite liberals and insufferable progressives,” Pepperdine historian Gordon Lloyd said at the Philadelphia Society’s annual meeting.
Why Economists Strike Out
An economist from Troy University offered an explanation for why so many of his peers failed to anticipate the 2008 recession that shows no sign of ending.
Crack In Ivory Curtain
When academia practices real diversity, one wonders how long it can continue. It usually doesn’t, unfortunately.
Canadian Education & America’s Regression
While the U. S. rushes to completely nationalize education, allegedly to improve test scores, America’s nearest northern neighbor, Canada, is taking a different approach.