Recent Articles

Losing Our History

, Rosemarie Capozzi

When giving a history quiz to a number of college students, the American Council of Trustees and Alumni failed four out of five students.

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What Has Happened to Patriotism

, Brian Sears

American students seem to have trouble understanding the greatness of our country and need the for patriotism. One high school student tells the story of what happened in his very classroom.

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Schools Need Tough Love Reform

, Julia A. Seymour

Discussions of school reform often result is shouting matches and excercises in passing the buck rather than honest discussion and creative ideas about how to fix public education, but a group of educators that spoke at AEI recently have a problem with that approach.

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Schreck

, Malcolm A. Kline

Mal Kline exposes the illusory nature of McCarthyism in academia by examining testimony of Dr. Ellen Schrecker.

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Recent Articles

Remedial Radical Professors

, Spencer Irvine

At the Modern Language Association’s 2015 convention in Vancouver, Canada, Susan O’Malley, currently an English professor at the City University of New York (CUNY), lamented that remedial education could not be stopped in New York….

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MLA Ignores Victims of Communism

, Spencer Irvine

The fall of communism and socialism have “robbed” the “post-Sovietized world,” Noemi Marin of Florida Atlantic University suggested at this year’s Modern Language Association (MLA) conference in Vancouver, Canada. After the fall of the Berlin…

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MLA Style

, Accuracy in Academia

Find out what English professors think they know in the latest issue of Accuracy in Academia’s monthly Campus Report newsletter.

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Quick Hits: Community College Grad Rates

, Spencer Irvine

Via Columbia University’s Community College Research Center: “According to a recent study by the National Student Clearinghouse, 15 percent of students who started at two-year institutions in 2006 completed a degree at a four-year institution…

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