Recent Articles

Elementary Ed Wood

, Malcolm A. Kline

Wherever he is, long-deceased underground filmmaker Ed Wood must feel vindicated. When he was alive, Wood’s arena—transexualism—was considered outside the mainstream. Now, it is the mainstream, at least in public schools.

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Free Footbaths

, Matt Hadro

In anticipation of the upcoming academic year, two State universities plan to install foot baths in their public restrooms, funded with tax money.

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A Tree Grows In Brooklyn

, Matt Hadro


The Khalil Gibran International Academy
, a secondary public school with an Arabic-based curriculum, will open its doors this fall despite an outcry from local taxpayers.

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Race & Education

, Lance T. Izumi

It turns out that the Supreme Court, at least lately, has been poring over more facts in studying race and education than most public school officials have.

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Hidden Import Dangers

, Bethany Stotts

In the last few months, a series of reports about the looming dangers of products from Communist China has sparked a public outcry against compromised foreign safety standards.

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“The Great Divide”

, Mary Kapp

Although it is known in our nation’s capital as “The Great Divide,” at least one veteran journalist points out that the divisions of opinion on the issue of illegal immigration are between the Washington elite and the rest of the country.

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Ward Churchill Goes Down

, Peter W. Wood

The
National Association of Scholars welcomes the 8-to-1 decision of the University
of Colorado’s Board of Regents to strip Ward Churchill of his tenured appointment
as a faculty member .

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Inconvenient Global Warming Myths

, Mary Kapp

When audiences ask Christopher Horner, author of the Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming, why he hasn’t made a video of his rebuttal to former Vice President Al Gore’s “Inconvenient Truth,” he responds, “Well, just imagine 90 minutes of icebergs not melting…”

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Recent Articles

Academic Privilege By the Numbers

, Malcolm A. Kline

The nation and the Republican Party may or may not need ‘The Donald’ but a cursory look at what statistics we can extract from academia today suggests that the academic world needs somebody like him….

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Education Wonk Changes His Mind on Arne Duncan

, Spencer Irvine

The Thomas B. Fordham Institute’s Michael Petrilli recently wrote an apologetic op-ed for Fordham’s e-mail newsletter entitled “The new ESEA will be ‘loose-loose’ because Arne Duncan went overboard with ‘tight-tight’.” A champion for Common Core,…

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UNC’s Silent Sam Statue Vandalized, Again

, Spencer Irvine

As the College Fix reported: The University of North Carolina’s memorial “Silent Sam” statue was spray-painted yet again, this time with the question “Who is Sandra Bland?” Bland is the African-American woman who, after her…

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