Recent Articles

Federales Decode Temple

, Alliance Defense Fund

In a victory for free speech on campus, a federal judge
issued a permanent injunction against Temple University’s former
speech code policy and also rejected Temple’s attempts to dismiss plaintiff
Sergeant Christian DeJohn’s claims that Temple has withheld his master’s degree
because of his political and ideological viewpoints.

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Day Care Demystified

, Tony Perkins

The Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development found that putting a child in day care for a year or more increases the chances that the child will become disruptive in class–a trend that persists through the sixth grade.

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Affirmative Action Through Immigration?

, Malcolm A. Kline

A new study features a novel twist on an ongoing controversy; A head-to-head comparison of black Americans and black immigrants indicates that while affirmative action may not do much good for people of color, a private education does.

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Academic Myths at a glance

, Malcolm A. Kline

Here are a half dozen myths that circulate in higher education as well as in primary schools that only seem to get healthier with the retelling no matter how much the factual record stacks up against them.

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Alameda Schools Abandon Abstinence

, Karen England

High school students at Alameda High School and Encinal High School will soon have easier access to condoms. The Alameda Board of Education voted 5-0 earlier this week to allow condom distribution on the campuses of these schools.

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Recent Articles

How Conservatives Teach

, Malcolm A. Kline

Liberal friends curious about how conservative professors actually teach might consider asking them. That’s what Jeisi Zhao of the Young America’s Foundation did in an interview with George Mason University economist Walter Williams. “I teach…

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Detroit’s Choice

, Malcolm A. Kline

Something is actually growing in Detroit, a city that mostly has been in the news for its losses—charter schools, 66 of them. Their growth tracks with a statewide trend, and has the Detroit public schools…

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Black Like Rachel

, Malcolm A. Kline

In a way, Rachel Dolezal is a living embodiment of racial progress. In the 1961 book, Black Like Me, white journalist John Howard Griffin pretended to be black in order to show the indignities blacks…

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