At least one of the proposals to increase federal aid to higher education contains a provision that would virtually guarantee an explosion in the growth of government in the very near future.
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Student Loan Deception
The reality is that accessibility has nothing to do with the rates on student loans, but more on family income and financial aid. Also since student loans aren’t repaid until after graduation chopping the interest rate has no immediate effect on students’ budgets.
Toward A Public School Meritocracy?
Though fraught with tension, a performance-based compensation system makes good sense and creates all kinds of incentives to achieve. Such logic is lost on the education establishment, however.
MLA Guide to Remedial Writing
One-third of college students need remedial coursework, teaching associate John Dunn told the crowd at the annual meeting of the Modern Language Association (MLA) late last year.
Activist Academics at MLA
If the largest conclave of college English professors in the country sometimes sounded like a Democratic Party strategy session at the Modern Language Association meeting late last year, it might be because the two groups’ membership rolls have an overlap.
Good News for New Jersey school
The Carteret School District is now allowing a Good News
Club to meet at the Minue Elementary School.
Thoroughly Modern MLA
In a way, the largest collection of English professors in the country—the Modern Language Association (MLA)—is true to at least the first part of its name. What many laymen think of as the classics—British literature up to the 20th Century—is the focus of about one-tenth of the hundreds of panel discussions at the MLA annual meeting.
Subtraction California Style
California employs people to expose waste and fraud but, unfortunately, agencies such as the California Department of Education (CDE) sometimes prefer to fire and demote these workers rather than heed their warnings.
Inside the MLA
Even sympathetic observers of the Modern Language Association (MLA) offer up vignettes about what may be the world’s largest collection of English professors that make the group look rather odd.
NCLB Birthday Bashed
Five can be a difficult birthday. Just ask the architects of President Bush’s landmark federal law, No Child Left Behind, which turned five on January 8th.
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Oklahoma Freshman will have to Complete Mandatory Diversity Training
Incoming freshman at Oklahoma University will have to undergo mandatory diversity training after a fraternity scandal where racist chants were recorded on video, leading to a national scandal.
Democrats say Universities should Prosecute Sexual Assault Cases outside Criminal Justice System
This sounds very illegal and a blatant violation of due process and one’s constitutional rights, Senator Claire McCaskill and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand.
Title IX is Being Abused by Everyone Now
As the College Fix reported: “Erik Baker, a member of the group Men Against Rape and Sexual Assault at Northwestern University, wants to clear up some “misinformation” about the ordeal suffered by Laura Kipnis, the…
College President Threatens Lecturer for E-mail Reminding what Day it was
May Day apparently gets everyone all excited and upset, even through e-mail. Legal action was threatened as a result.
Another University Professor Blasts Whites on Social Media
As Campus Reform noted: “Boston University Professor Saida Grundy has been the focus of recent controversy over public remarks towards white students, but one professor has made remarks that are even more extreme.” “Memphis University…
No Safe Space for Conservatives!
We are truly in an age where who you know is more important than what you know. “The feminist scholars are academically weak but politically well-connected,” Christina Hoff Sommers, who maintains the Factual Feminist blog,…
Professor claims there are Too Many White Characters in Children’s Books
The College Fix reported: “Forty-five percent of children’s picture books published in 2012 featured white as the primary culture, and 75 percent of the main characters were white, troubling stats that may lead young readers…
Brazilian University Agreed with Palestinians to Spy on Israelis
This is ridiculous. This is opposition research and spying on Israelis for being… Israelis! “An administrator at a Brazilian university agreed to fulfill a public-records requests by those groups to identify “Israeli students and lecturers…
Media Downplays Youth Unemployment
Recent college graduates contemplating their post-graduation job prospects might find that the media are as inaccurate a source of information as their university career services department is. The Washington Post reported on June 5, 2015…
NRA wants to do College Outreach
It’s a good strategy, considering that universities and colleges are the hotbeds of anti-gun rights thanks to left-wing and liberal professors and administrators.