With the decline of basic math skills that they helped to bring about, about the only place that the political Left can multiply is on college campuses.
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UN Hides Another Decline
Here’s the question: On the heels of Climategate, will the media overlook an effort by the United Nations to hide yet another decline, also aided and abetted by academia?
Affirmative Action for Effort
With their genius for expanding failed government programs, academics have concocted a way to apply affirmative action more expansively. Simply put, Richard D. Kahlenberg, in a June 4, 2010 essay in The Chronicle Review suggests that “universities consider how far a student has come as well as what her raw scores are” on the SAT.
“Never Google Drunk”
Commencement is usually a time when the speaker gives encouragement to the college graduates as they head off into the work force and pursue their life dreams. But NBC’s Today Show anchor Ann Curry, this year’s Wheaton College commencement speaker, gave mixed signals, making an embarrassing mistake during her speech.
Home: Where the school is
Apparently, staying at home not only helps you get over an illness, it can also help students recover from public schools.
Teacher Work Days Deconstructed
Those of us who find Teacher Work Days a relatively recent phenomenon, if not an oxymoronic one, can get a bird’s eye view of what they sometimes consist of from an inside account of an educational conference held late last year.
A Bus Ride to Remember
A family has sued Carmel Clay Schools for what the father deems “harassment” of his daughter by a bus driver working for the school district.
More Climate Wealth
Those students at green colleges learning about sustainability and reducing their carbon footprint might want to consider the record of those who represent such initiatives.
Climb the Highest What?
Enthusiasm for the President of the United States may run higher in academia than in other quarters of the United States but a SUNY-Binghamton prof went way over the top in giving him a new title, among other things.
Illiteracy High Among Elites
Obama Administration officials aren’t the only educated elites weighing in on Arizona’s statute on illegal immigration without having immersed themselves in its details.
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Book Review: Is ‘The Dying Citizen’ a Prediction of America’s Future?
America’s ongoing and seemingly-constant crises have left Americans scrambling to find a sense of normalcy and safety. Just in time, to cut through the chaotic bombardment of conflicting messages and opinions while providing a voice…
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