Technology buffs in the city of Brotherly Love are taking the School Without Walls concept into what may be the second-to-last frontier at Philadelphia’s Science Leadership Academy (SLA).
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18-24 Year-Olds Choose Obama & Giuliani
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and U.S. Senator Barack Obama are first choice among 18-24 year-olds for President in 2008 according to the Harvard Institute of Politics 12th Biannual Youth Survey on Politics and Public Service.
Dismal Science or Dreary Instruction?
Can it be that economics has its reputation as the dismal science because of the way it is taught? Economist Peter G. Klein, in his appreciation of the founder of the Austrian School of Economics—Carl Menger— indicates that may be the case.
The Al-Jazeera of Psychotic Killers
Phil Rosenthal of the Chicago Tribune notes the strange decision by NBC to put its NBC News logo and the NBC peacock, “in all its multicolored glory,” on the videos and photos that it released of Virginia Tech mass murderer Cho Seung Hui.
Campus Footnotes
Like many other ills that afflict society, it now appears that the so-called “achievement gap” between white and black students is also a byproduct of secular progressive policies.
Grumpy Old Men
Institutions of higher learning, designed to be the most temperate pillars of society, produce some of America’s most intemperate and unsubstantiated rhetoric; and the two Granddaddies of grandiloquence have to be Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn.
Rap for the Rich
The controversy continues to swirl around the remarks made by Don Imus about the Rutger’s Women’s basketball team being “nappy headed hoes”—which eventually got him fired.
VT Elegy
For many of us, the bloody horrors at Virginia Tech served as a sudden and painful reminder that we live in a fallen world where man is capable of unthinkable evil.
End of Abstinence Education?
After years of fighting funding for abstinence education, liberal groups are heralding a new research study on several abstinence programs.
University of Southern Indiana Turnaround
A professor with a conscience helps keep a radical speaker, who supports violence in pursuit of “animal rights,” off campus.
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Wisconsin Professor who Compared Scott Walker to Hitler Formally Apologizes
She apologized in a telephone interview with The College Fix, but she still stands by her criticism of the Wisconsin Republican governor Scott Walker (the Hitler comparison excluded).
ISIS Whack-A-Mole
Academia might not understand ISIS, but the service academies do. ISIS, or ISIL, has made significant territorial gains across the Middle East and inroads into the heart of Africa. A recent panel discussion on the…
Mizzou joins Virginia as Universities Banning Free Speech Zones
This is a good thing to protect free speech on college campuses. The more colleges that ban these free speech zones, the better.
Why They Can’t Stop Trump
Editor’s Note: Two political scientists find Trump still has winning hands In a Sunday column in The Washington Post, “Stop laughing at Donald Trump,” a liberal analyst from the Brookings Institution tries to warn the…
California Professor Offers Mexico Trip only for Illegal Immigrant Students
A Cal State Long Beach professor brings illegal immigrant students back to Mexico to do a study-abroad-type trip and to tap into their Mexican roots.
Columbia University-affiliated Women’s College allows Adjuncts to Unionize
As the College Fix reported: “The Columbia Spectator reports that the women’s college, affiliated with Columbia University, spent 13 hours in negotiation with Barnard Contingent Faculty-UAW rather than present its closing arguments at the eighth…
GOP Senator says College would be Cheaper if Less Regulated
Lamar Alexander, Tennessee Republican, did have a point: Vanderbilt University spent almost $11,000 per student in compliance costs with Department of Education regulations.
Planned Parenthood Travels the Organ Trail
Editor’s Note: Something colleges and collegians need to know before they get involved with this outfit. For years, Planned Parenthood has fought against late-term abortion bans. And now we know why. The earlier babies are aborted,…
Wisconsin Professor Under Fire for Aggressively Tweeting anti-Walker Info to Incoming Freshmen
She went far and beyond solely criticizing the GOP and Scott Walker via Twitter, but searched out future college students at the University of Wisconsin on the social media platform and fed them anti-GOP information.
Vermont’s Water Bottle Ban Led to More Soda Consumption by Students
The University of Vermont doesn’t understand basic economic principles after implementing a disastrous ban on water bottles on their campus.
Book Review
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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The Origins of Political Correctness
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Ayn Rand Reconsidered
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