Call it a mystery with a moral but first-time novelist John DeFrank delivers both with stunning success in Condemned to Freedom, set in a public school in the Pennsylvania Dutch Country.
Articles By: Malcolm A. Kline
Summer Reading Blues Antidotes
Although one third of the summer is nearly over, Accuracy in Academia would like to offer some summer reading suggestions to fill in the gaps left by university recommendations.
From Bluebook to Blueprint
Giving academics the opportunity to do whatever they want with the federal government may not be the brightest idea on the planet.
Educating For Disaster
The good news is that our political elites from both parties are highly educated. The bad news is the education that they and their progeny receive.
Top Down Failure from Right to Left
Whether attempted by nominally conservative Republicans or genuinely liberal Democrats, efforts to reform public schools from the top down seem to have a higher failure rate than most inner city public schools.
What Would Buckley Do?
Two years after his death, William F. Buckley, Jr., the ultimate conservative man of letters, still has a lot to teach the young and the rightward. In turn, there is no better person to pass on these lessons than the man who has become the preeminent historian of the conservative movement—Lee Edwards.
Go Forth & Multiply
With the decline of basic math skills that they helped to bring about, about the only place that the political Left can multiply is on college campuses.
UN Hides Another Decline
Here’s the question: On the heels of Climategate, will the media overlook an effort by the United Nations to hide yet another decline, also aided and abetted by academia?
Affirmative Action for Effort
With their genius for expanding failed government programs, academics have concocted a way to apply affirmative action more expansively. Simply put, Richard D. Kahlenberg, in a June 4, 2010 essay in The Chronicle Review suggests that “universities consider how far a student has come as well as what her raw scores are” on the SAT.
Home: Where the school is
Apparently, staying at home not only helps you get over an illness, it can also help students recover from public schools.
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Book Review: Is ‘The Dying Citizen’ a Prediction of America’s Future?
America’s ongoing and seemingly-constant crises have left Americans scrambling to find a sense of normalcy and safety. Just in time, to cut through the chaotic bombardment of conflicting messages and opinions while providing a voice…
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