Recent Articles

Extravagance without Accountability

, Malcolm A. Kline

Of all the myths that the higher education establishment has perpetuated, perhaps none is more pervasive, or contributes as much to the preservation of the status quo, as the notion that the blame for tuition hikes lay somewhere other than the central offices of universities

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From Arab to Infidel

, Wendy Cook

Her name is Nonie Darwish, an American resident since 1978, married and mother of three. Her voice has become a megaphone for Arabs who support Israel.

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Federal Court Strikes Down School Policy

, Mathew D. Staver

On Friday a federal district court in Syracuse, New York issued an opinion finding that school officials had violated a fourth grader’s free speech rights by denying her request to distribute her Christian testimony during noninstructional time.

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2007 “Campus Outrage Awards”

, Collegiate Network

Proving that crazy and absurd antics of college life are no longer confined to fraternities and sororities but have now expanded into the classroom and administration buildings, the Collegiate Network announces the 10th annual “Campus Outrage Awards.”

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Collectively Bargaining Away Education

, Rachel Chaney

Getting Down to Facts does deal with the key question of teacher quality. The massive report, released by Stanford researchers on March 14-15, the most thorough to date on California education, addresses two significant factors that contribute to the difficulty in developing a highly qualified workforce in California’s schools.

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Georgia Public School Bigotry

, Kiera M. McCaffrey

On Ash Wednesday, February 21, a Catholic female
student at White County High School in Cleveland, Georgia had her
ashes wiped off her forehead by a substitute teacher in her Honors
Trigonometry class.

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College Standards Left Behind

, Jeff A. Martineau

The old saying, “be careful what you wish for,” is especially apt when it comes to public policy, whose consequences seldom reflect intentions. Unfortunately, the U. S. Department of Education may be about to prove this adage true once again.

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Ohio State Catholic Bashing

, Kiera M. McCaffrey

On March 27, an anonymous female journalism student at Ohio State University wrote a column in The Lantern, a student newspaper on the campus, titled “Going Down with the Catholics.”

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Recent Articles

Community Colleges Pay for the Tofu

, Spencer Irvine

President Barack Obama’s latest education initiative is #FreeCommunityCollege for American students, but it brings up the question, will it make a concrete impact on the higher education landscape? At the Brookings Institution, Maryland community college…

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