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A panel at the Center for American Progress discussed “The Meaning of Race in a 21^st-Century America,” billed as an “in-depth discussion on the meaning of race and ethnicity in a changing America.”

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

Perhaps the Obama Administration’s foreign policy is becoming so indefensible that even its best and brightest academic defenders are becoming tongue tied defending it.

When professors attempt to show that they are up on current events, they might prove just the opposite.

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

Those 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).

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.

Academics, the very people who claim they want “progress” “going forward,” frequently want to turn back the clock a half century or so.

The Columbia Journalism Review, which is not known for its conservative views, published an article yesterday by Alexis Sobel Fitts that credits Fox News for giving opponents more of a voice than does MSNBC.

A team of researchers from Penn looked at the condition of higher education and came to about the same conclusion that academics usually come to when pressed to make a self-examination: Universities need more money.

One of the fascinating things about journalism is looking at the factual data that both sides of a controversy agree on and finding that the facts support the critics’ viewpoints.

Opposition to the Common Core education reform efforts of the Obama Administration has crossed political lines to a remarkable degree.