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Deconstructing Ellen

, Malcolm A. Kline

When yet another distinguished (read, tenured) academic emerges from the Ivory Tower to defend institutions of higher learning from their, mostly, external, critics, that professor usually proves to be the latest poster child for what is wrong with American colleges and universities today.

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For the Children?

, Malcolm A. Kline

The education reformers trying to avert abstinence education in favor of the now old-fashioned contraceptive instruction tell us that they are doing it, as they do everything else, “for the children.” One wonders whose interests they are really representing.

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Common Core: Against Gifted Students

, Spencer Irvine

Now, after lauding Common Core’s benefits, Common Core supporters are scrambling to justify the oft-maligned education standards. At the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, UConn education professor Jonathan Plucker criticized school districts for using the standards…

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