Maybe one of the reasons our fortieth president gets such short shrift in textbooks is because he had the academic left’s number, as we used to say.
Articles By: Malcolm A. Kline
Battle of New Orleans
In New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina we can see what it takes to dislodge an entrenched educational bureaucracy and its companion teachers union from power—a natural disaster.
Eco-Freak U
A new book exposes environmental scares that have become textbook mainstays but bear more than a passing resemblance to urban legends.
Revised History of AIA
In the current issue of Radical Teacher, one of their writers tries to relay our history, with some success.
Campus Footnotes
At a time when the newly seated U. S. Congress is moving to increase federal aid to higher education, one way or another, yet another college has broken the one-billion-dollar mark in its endowment cache—George Washington University.
The Organized Catholic Ethic
In their zealous push for every item on the countercultural agenda, modern-day labor leaders and their alleged academic supporters may be alienating some of their natural allies.
Traditional Values Triumph Again
Perhaps inadvertently, a Harris poll released earlier this month shows the benefits of a religious education over a secular one.
Public School Powder Kegs
Despite the touchy-feely pronouncements of their proponents, America’s Public Schools have become battlegrounds over divisive issues that divide an already divided nation even further.
The Joy Composition Club
College English professors are trying to teach students how to write when some of these same pupils haven’t read much.
Dickens Deconstructed
One of the unfortunate effects of the interdisciplinary approach to education is that it encourages English professors to regard themselves as astute on subjects on which they are clearly not, such as economics.