Articles by Malcolm A. Kline

It might not be seismic, but there is a shift in academia away from the faddish and back towards the traditional.

Public school teachers have been bemoaning the decline in reading skills for years. At least one teacher is trying to do something about it.

Racial preferences embraced by supposedly elite law schools may actually be forcing blacks out of the legal profession.

Race-based college admission preferences actually hurt minority applicants, three members of the U. S. Civil Rights Commission allege.

An historic ballot proposition passed by California voters in 1996 to end race-based admissions to the University of California may have led to more blacks being admitted to UC.

“College student loan debt now surpasses $1 trillion.”—Vicki Alger, Independent Women’s Forum

“The ‘everybody gets a trophy!’ school of thought does not make students confident, but renders them cynical.”— Douglas B. Reeves, founder of The Leadership and Learning Center

Halloween is not here yet but universities are already channeling Charlie Brown in their eager anticipation of their own Great Pumpkin—green jobs.

Herbert Hoover’s posthumously published chronicle promises to be a game changer, whether universities ignore it or not.

If industry is impossible without infrastructure, one wonders what difference roads make when there is nowhere to go.

When we last wrote of controversial Mid-East Studies scholar Tariq Ramadan, he was set to arrive in the United States to teach at Notre Dame on a newly minted visa that the last presidential administration had denied him.

“The Los Angeles Unified School District is being sued by 14 mothers whose children were allegedly sexually abused by a former district elementary school teacher, who is being held on a $23-milion-bond and has been charged with 23 counts of lewd acts on children.”—CNN by way of the American School Board Journal