College and universities have one thing in common with the federal government, along with the cash that flows from the latter to the former: They seem to be following Einstein’s definition of insanity.
Read the articleEven education insiders are beginning to acknowledge that the data mining the federal government is now engaged in under Common Core produces little in the way of education achievement.
Read the articleOne of the fascinating dichotomies in academia is that its denizens, who more often than any other group, profess themselves obsessed with society, are more likely to show themselves absorbed with self.
Read the articleEven National Public Radio (NPR) occasionally realizes that some college courses are straight from la-la land.
Read the articleA panel at the Center for American Progress discussed “The Meaning of Race in a 21st-Century America,” billed as an “in-depth discussion on the meaning of race and ethnicity in a changing America.”
Read the articleShe’s been derided in academia for decades: Panels disparaging her works are not unusual at the Modern Language Association’s annual confab.
Read the articlePerhaps the Obama Administration’s foreign policy is becoming so indefensible that even its best and brightest academic defenders are becoming tongue tied defending it.
Read the articleWhen professors attempt to show that they are up on current events, they might prove just the opposite.
Read the articleUsually, denizens of that epicenter of arrested adolescence—academia—can’t notice that trend in society at large, or even in their own…
Read the articleThose who argue that higher education is a major league time suck just got more ammunition in a report from the U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).
Read the articleBig name Republicans and putative conservatives signing onto the Obama Administration’s Common Core education reforms in the belief that they will raise standards in public schools may want to entertain the possibility that they will actually lower them.
Read the articleAcademics, the very people who claim they want “progress” “going forward,” frequently want to turn back the clock a half century or so.
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