Like dentists, government officials know they’ve hit a raw nerve when cavities respond. “Bad news always seems to drop on Fridays,” Dave Vanness, an Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, wrote on a…
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Scott Walker Strikes Again
For a quarter of a century, Republican presidential candidates have uttered variations of George H. W. Bush’s high pitched pledge: “I want to be the education president.” It has gotten them exactly nowhere. So far,…
Scott Walker Leads GOP on Education
Whatever his merits or demerits, the actual front-runner for the 2016 GOP presidential nomination continues to show how Republican candidates, at least on education, can lead on, rather than be overwhelmed by, issues. “Wisconsin Gov….
Univ. of Wisconsin Student Papers: Negative Scott Walker Op-Eds outnumber Positive Ones by 3-to-1 Ratio
The College Fix did a count of op-eds in the University of Wisconsin newspapers and found out that there was a 3-to-1 ratio of negative op-eds of Governor Scott Walker than positive ones.
Scott Walker v. Academia
Find out why Scott Walker may be more likely to transform academia than any Republican ever has been, in the latest issue of Accuracy in Academia’s monthly Campus Report newsletter.
Scott Walker Creates Mainstream Education Reform
Although frequently branded as far-Right, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s proposals, at least on the education front, are surprisingly middle-of-the-road, or at least are becoming mainstream. At least two of them are gaining acceptance in some…
Liberal Media fails to Smear Scott Walker, Again
Sounds like a pattern, right? The liberal press, Jezebel, The Daily Beast and Huffington Post, accused Scott Walker, the presumed GOP front-runner for the 2016 nomination, of pushing to eliminate rules on reporting college rapes…
Wisconsin Professor who gave Extra Credit to Students at anti-Scott Walker Rally isn’t Political
What? Yes, that’s the claim of one of Professor Beth Lueck’s students, who said that politics never got into the classroom and that this extra credit assignment was reasonable since budget cuts proposed by Walker…
Scott Walker’s Mainstream Higher Ed Reform
When Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker unveiled his higher education reforms for the state university system, the reaction from that quarter was predictably negative. Yet and still, Governor Walker’s proposals are remarkably similar to several that…
Wisconsin Professor Offers Extra Credit for Attending anti-Scott Walker Rally
University of Wisconsin-Whitewater English professor Beth Lueck offered extra credit for students to protest at an anti-Walker rally. There was no mention of going to any pro-Walker rally.