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Abyss of Area Studies

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.

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Education Data = Fool’s Gold

Even 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.

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Academic Selfies

One 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.

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Post-racial America?

A 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.”

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Ayn Rand Reconsidered

She’s been derided in academia for decades: Panels disparaging her works are not unusual at the Modern Language Association’s annual confab.

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Boyz 2 Men, Not

Usually, denizens of that epicenter of arrested adolescence—academia—can’t notice that trend in society at large, or even in their own…

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Dumbed-Down Common Core
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Dumbed-Down Common Core

Big 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.

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Stuck in the Sixties

Academics, 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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