Perspectives The Cost of Common Core Malcolm A. Kline October 1, 2015 It may not work terribly well but Common Core sure is expensive. “The treatment of textbooks as mountains of words…
Perspectives A World Without SATs Malcolm A. Kline September 30, 2015 Last year, Hampshire College became the first institution of higher learning in the country to categorically reject using SATs as…
Perspectives Academia’s Binder Full of Women Malcolm A. Kline September 28, 2015 In the last presidential election, the Republican candidate, Mitt Romney, received much derision when he announced in a debate that…
Perspectives Students School UNC on 9-11 Malcolm A. Kline September 24, 2015 Fundamental law of physics: For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. “At the start of the fall…
Perspectives New Deal with a Stacked Deck Malcolm A. Kline September 22, 2015 A high school teacher who has worked in Oregon and Manhattan is determined to pass on his history of the…
Perspectives Common Core Disses Bilingual Education Malcolm A. Kline September 21, 2015 The bad reviews of Common Core keep pouring in, and not just from the right of center. “Among bilingual educators…
Perspectives Bias Watch: Georgetown University Malcolm A. Kline September 19, 2015 Occasionally, students actually notice when they are in a biased course. “I felt a certain idealistic giddiness upon enrolling in…
Perspectives Increasingly Uncommon Common Core Malcolm A. Kline September 14, 2015 As more states learn what Common Core involves, fewer of them want anything to do with it. “The number of…
Perspectives Libertarianism and Conservatism Not Incompatible Malcolm A. Kline Supposed sages in academe and beyond have been trying to create a schism between Libertarianism and conservatism that need not…
Perspectives Title IX Attacks Male College Students Malcolm A. Kline September 10, 2015 Young men considering college may want to look at safer pastimes, like race car driving. Colleges are hell-bent on penalizing…
Perspectives Immigration Lowers Educational Achievement, Survey finds Malcolm A. Kline September 9, 2015 When academia, aided and abetted by international agencies, tell you something isn’t happening, there is a very good chance that…
Perspectives Look for the Union Label Malcolm A. Kline September 7, 2015 As labor union leaders high-five each other this weekend over their ancestors’ creation of the Labor Day holiday more than…
