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Teaching tools have apparently become more exotic since the days of slide rules and overhead projectors.

Here’s the thing about academic research: At its best, it reaffirms the obvious but at a much greater cost than casual observation entails.

There is an odd sort of ying-yang going on between the Occupy Wall Street protests and institutions of higher learning.

Accuracy in Academia will feature veteran journalist and the author of Crazy U, Andrew Ferguson, at the next AIA Author’s Night on October 26, 2011.

Accuracy in Media actually found a conservative media critic at UCLA.

On the face of it, opening a new university in this day and age would seem to be akin to selling refrigerators to Eskimos.

Noted academics seem to view the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations as a means of recapturing the 1960s, particularly if they missed the latter decade on the first go-round.

The links between tenured radicals and Occupy Wall Street are not hard to find.

The latest academic to argue that academia drives economic growth offers a long list of inventions spawned by universities but she might be missing a key ingredient.

Dr. Walter Williams, a distinguished economics professor at George Mason University, noted recently that taxpayers have an imperfect understanding of the academic rot that exists at our nation’s colleges, adding that “what distinguishes one college from the other is the magnitude of that rot.”

America’s school boards want more money from American taxpayers but they don’t want to be told what to do with it.

Scores in New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina have jumped considerably at a time when the majority of the city’s public schools have become charter schools.