“Race to the Top” required that states commit to yet-to-be-written Common Core standards in math and English/Language Arts (ELA).
Read the articleWhen initial White House visitor logs were released in 2009, the administration quickly dismissed speculations about visits by “William Ayers.”
Read the articleThree years after the Department of Education announced a contest called Race-to-the-Top for $4.35 billion in stimulus funds, some parents, teachers, governors, and citizen and public policy groups are coming to an awful realization about the likely outcomes.
Read the articleEven given the longstanding urge of academics to treat Democratic presidents the way the Catholic Church once treated saints, the academic Left may have been a bit hasty when it rushed to canonize the current occupant of the White House.
Read the articlePresident Obama’s approval ratings in his last academic post were not as high as we’ve been lead to believe.
Read the articleThis Friday, September 21st, Accuracy in Media will be webcasting live a major conference in Washington, D.C. called, “ObamaNation: A Day of Truth.”
Read the articleThe view of violent uprisings in the Middle East, and collateral threats in the United States, is a bit different in the Ivory Tower than it is closer to the action.
Read the articleAt least one college professor is looking at the Chicago teacher’s strike with envy.
Read the articleThe fiftieth anniversary of the seminal book Silent Spring was bound to inspire at least one tribute from academia.
Read the articleHere’s how you get read out of academia for unorthodoxy.
Read the articleNinety Georgetown faculty members and administrators have gone public with a letter attacking Republican vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan’s budget proposal but the bill of particulars in the missive does not match up to the content of his plan.
Read the articleThe reaction to movie icon Clint Eastwood’s “debate” with an unoccupied stool representing President Obama at the Republican convention has, predictably, extended to the faculty lounge.
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