After saving the quota over merit system at the University of Michigan, Lee C. Bollinger went on to Columbia University to preserve its traditions. Unfortunately, he’s succeeding.
Articles By: Malcolm A. Kline
Sleeping With The Enemy
A large chunk of the blame for the ever-deteriorating state of education goes to some of academia’s favorite targets.
Importance of Being Elena
Accuracy in Academia executive director Mal Kline spoke on U. S. Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan’s extensive academic record at a rally sponsored by Young Americans for Freedom on July 1, 2010.
Green Grow the Children
Green used to mean young, inexperienced and naïve. Arguably, it still does. “According to a poll by Habitat Heroes, one in three American schoolchildren fears that the earth will not exist when he grows up,” Ashley Thorne writes in the June 2010 issue of The Education Reporter.
History Behind The Scenes
Two events in recent weeks point out the danger of leaving history to the historians. One is the inclusion of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin in a D-Day memorial commemorating an invasion he never took part in. The other is the rating of Stalin ally Franklin D. Roosevelt as America’s greatest president, according to leading academics.
Post-Graduate Homeschooling
One of the signs of the increasing popularity of homeschooling is the growing number of Americans who avail themselves of it after graduation. It’s also a sign of the endemic failures of public education today.
Columbia: Anatomy of Anarchy
For most of the past half century, Columbia University has provided endless fodder for news outlets such as ours. Indeed, as Accuracy in Academia discovered, the campus left has veto power over not just the curriculum but extracurricular activities as well.
Group Rights Without Responsibilities
Academics rarely try to explain why the human condition has not improved while they are busily trying to archive the U. S. Constitution and introduce us to a panoply of “rights.”
Self-Esteem Bottoms Out
While everyone from Middle American parents to the U. S. Secretary of Education are expressing a lack of confidence in the ability of ed schools to deliver qualified teachers to public schools, the deans of those institutions have no such angst.
Teacher’s Self-Defense Manual
An interesting flip side of the victimology that permeates public schools is that teachers are frequently expected to play the villain. One self-help expert who literally advises educators to turn the other cheek is Dr. Eric P. Hartwig.
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