Articles by Malcolm A. Kline

Malcolm A. Kline is the Executive Director of Accuracy in Academia. If you would like to comment on this article, e-mail contact@academia.org.
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STEMming What Tide?

One thing that Accuracy in Academia has in common with its big sister organization, Accuracy in Media, is that, upon investigation of various claims made in our respective bailiwicks—just about everything we’ve been told by elites is wrong.

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Fantasy Economics of Obamacare

It’s one thing to play fantasy football or fantasy baseball. It’s quite another to play fantasy economics. Unfortunately, too many academics do too little of the former and too much of the latter.

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Pedantic @ Penn

Scan through any college catalogue and you will find courses that are painfully obvious, at best, and trivial, at least.

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Assessing America @ Columbia

A casual read through Columbia University’s catalogue will give a fairly clear idea of the esteem America is held in on that Ivy League campus, which is to say, not very much.

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Enigma of Common Core

Two online courses on teaching the Common Core education initiative of the Obama Administration that are just about as vague as the program.

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Uncommon Catholic Core

The Obama Administration’s Common Core education initiative may be problematic for private Catholic schools as well as the public ones the program is designed for.

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Activist Training @ Harvard

When a course is entitled “History of the U. S. for Policymakers, Activists, and Citizens,” you can bet that the target audience is the second group of constituents.

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Where’s the Real Diversity?

The latest issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education includes a special supplement on “Diversity in Academe” that is only missing one thing.

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Journalism School Discovers News

The Columbia Journalism School has discovered something newspaper readers and television viewers have long been seeking—facts.

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Do Pell Grants Raise Tuition?

Academics tend to circle the wagons when you suggest that Pell grant increases lead to tuition hikes.

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Obamacare Implosion Not Academic

The professoriate, as seen through the eyes of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), thinks that Obamacare is wildly popular despite GOP efforts to make it unpopular.