Apparently it’s a how-to course.
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Not Ready For College
“Given the choice between losing their jobs or keeping the full 4 hours on instruction for students who enter the college with English as their second language and with significant lack of preparation for college level work, English faculty chose to act on behalf of their students and their colleagues have supported them”.—the Academic Senate of Queensborough Community College in Bayside, N. Y.
Annapolis Prof Disses Academy
Academics have always had a hard time accepting the service academies even when they work for them.
Academic Ponders Free Enterprise
When academics turn their attention to America’s free enterprise system, they prove definitively that they never worked in it.
Media Illiteracy Explained
But not in the way you think.
Elementary Role Play Pitfalls
“There are so many ways a role play about racism can go wrong in a room full of 6-, 7-, and 8-year-olds.”—elementary school teacher Katharine Johnson
Cultural Capitalism
“What we call basic skills are only ‘basic’ because they are one aspect of the cultural capital of the middle class.”—Southern University Professor Lisa Delpit
Gates & PBS Behind Common Core
Will Common Core produce well-educated Americans or indoctrinated pacifist global citizens?
Sesame Street/Easy Street
Sesame Workshop, which reported revenue of $130,606,413, in 2009, says 35 percent comes from “corporate, foundation and government support.”
America’s Biggest Classroom Mobilizes
Defending PBS, CEO Paula Kerger told CNN’s Carol Costello, “We’re America’s biggest classroom.”
Recent Articles
Antidote to Trump Derangement Syndrome
Since we started reporting on it last year, Trump Derangement Syndrome has, if anything, surpassed epidemic proportions, starting in the Faculty Lounge.
Law Professor Wants a ‘White Middle-Class Studies’ Program to Understand Trump Voters
A law professor at a D.C. university proposed the idea of studying Trump voters with a ‘blue collar studies’ program.
Mizzou Slashing Administration Positions, but is Silent on One Administrator’s Disappearance from Website
Mizzou has cut administrative positions due to budget cuts, but it will not comment on where a college administrator is working after her name disappeared from the college website.
5 Crazy Professors Caught on Video
While there are way more incidences of crazy professors caught on video, here are five who will surely make wonder what has happened to today’s college campuses
Professors Pen Op-Ed, Want Colleges to Train ‘Social Justice Warriors’
More ‘social justice warriors’? Two professors want colleges to train professional activists, in a recently penned op-ed.
‘Spatial Injustice’ is Caused by America’s ‘Car Culture,’ UCLA Course Alleges
America’s ‘spatial injustice’ is caused by ‘car culture,’ at least that is what a UCLA digital humanities course alleged.
Veteran Prof: Time to Defund the Ivory Curtain?
It might sound hyperbolic to compare today’s academic climate to an ideology that claimed at least 100 million lives but the parallels are startling.
Trump Supporters are ‘Deeply Invested in White Supremacy,’ Claimed Professor
A college professor at the University of Kansas tweeted that Trump supporters are “deeply invested in white supremacy.” Huh?!
Kent State Students Hold Art Auction Benefitting Planned Parenthood
An art auction benefitting Planned Parenthood was organized by Kent State University students and faculty members in response to Obamacare repeal and replace efforts by Congress, but it was not an official university event.
Where are ‘We the People’?
In his Fourth of July column, Pat Buchanan, as usual, asks some provocative questions: