One reason why politicians spend more time talking about education reform than actually engaged in it might be that they benefit greatly from the status quo.
Articles By: Malcolm A. Kline
Academics Need Inferiority Complex
Some social scientists seem to have a hard time distinguishing between the social sciences and hard science.
An Inconvenient Class Activity
Although school administrators around the country are rushing a former vice-president’s cinematic debut onto classroom film projectors, some districts are holding out.
Bill Moyers’ Blue America
When the media and academia overlap in the United States, the result can be—a distorted picture of America. Journalistic icon Bill Moyers shared such a vision when he gave the commencement address at SMU.
Bias of Border Studies
When academics cross the line into advocacy they risk violating their own oft-stated goal of illuminating current controversies, such as immigration.
First Amendment Covers Religion Too
Public schools that clamp down on religious expression do so in the face of a stream of court decisions that uphold the rights of students and teachers to express themselves religiously, albeit with caveats.
Norman Rockwell Deconstructed
Academics are trying out a new way to make peace with American icons, namely by turning them into liberals long after their death. Such seems to be Johns Hopkins University (JHU) professor Richard Halpern’s approach to the art of Norman Rockwell.
Ethics in Government, Not
America’s first openly gay governor becomes the latest Democratic officeholder not to let the revolving door into academia hit him on the way out of elected office.
Revisionist Reaganomics
Academics trying to rewrite the Reagan years may need magicians’ mirrors because the actual data don’t support the spin that these “public scholars” would dearly like to put on the 80s.
Ho Jo Health Care 101
Health care administrators and those who teach them try to fathom the low esteem they are held in without much success.