If a public-school student gets to college without knowing when the Civil War was fought or how to do basic math, part of the problem may be with the student’s textbook.
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Martin Luther King, Jr., Multiculturally
Oregon State University celebrates Dr. King’s life with a film about gay rights and the Boy Scouts.
Philosophically Correct
Those of you who thought that philosophy ran in a straight line from Socrates might be surprised at some of the academic offerings at the recent American Philosophical Association conference.
Class Warfare In Education
The push towards equality in education has made a casualty of excellence, a political science professor finds.
Civil Liberties On Campus At Risk, Part II
Today in the United States there is a growing conflict between anti-discrimination law and civil liberties, particularly on college campuses, a legal scholar finds.
History Lesson: The New Deal Revisited
Educators have told generations of students that President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal ended the Great Depression but the actual history of the era tells a different story.
The Blackboard Jungle Revisited
When a journalist and scholar specializing in education experiences New York’s public schools as a parent, he finds the experience even more alarming than the statistics.
Radical Islam in the wake of 9/11
While the educational establishment promotes a study of Islam that downplays the acts of the more extreme practitioners of the creed, the author of a new book shows the danger of such an approach.
Civil Liberties On Campus: At Risk
College admistrators now make civil rights and civil liberties an either/or choice, a new book by law school professor David E. Bernstein shows.