Articles by Malcolm A. Kline

Public school teachers should realize one thing when they feel compelled to share their political views with students: Those pupils might be the children of syndicated columnists.

Because they are so numerous, we have to give them to you in installments.

Drawn from the profiles we’ve done of professors so far this year, we offer these pedagogues as proof that tenure doesn’t work.

“In a twist to notions of race identity, new 2010 census figures show an unexpected reason behind a renewed growth in the U.S. white population: more Hispanics listing themselves as white in the once-a-decade government count.”—Hope Yen, Associated Press, September 29, 2011.

Occasionally we actually get to cover professors whom we like. In fact, we calculate that of the 149 professors who we have covered so far this year, we’ve had nice things to say about a fifth of them.

“We deal with young men, trying to teach them empowerment; how to become to young men, how to sit up straight when you’re talking to someone, how to look them in the eyes; instead of saying ‘yeah,’ you can say ‘yes’ and ‘no’; about pulling your pants up.”— Darryl Barnes, co-founder of Men Aiming Higher in an interview with Ben Giles in The Washington Examiner, September 26, 2011.

The one thing that our college guide has in common with the better-known one put out by U. S. News & World Report is that many of the same schools appear on both.

What happens in Vegas may not stay in Vegas: It might become an academic study.

ill Ayers will be a keynote speaker at the National Association for Multicultural Education’s 2011 conference.

In this midst of nostalgia for him, it is worth noting that during his lifetime, elites claimed that Ronald Reagan was factually challenged. Just as frequently, he proved them wrong.

He may or may not get elected president, but Texas governor Rick Perry may wind up having more of a lasting influence on education than the last two occupants of the White House ever did.

Americans in all walks of life are unprepared for most emergencies, a team of researchers found.