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
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.
A Bold Plan for Failing Schools
Tackling issues facing public education are not easy, but Paul T. Hill of the University of Washington has a few ideas.
Accreditation Fails to Improve Teachers
Accreditation processes that don’t produce better teachers aren’t cost efficient and they don’t help our students.
Fighting Illini
A student responds to Mal Kline’s article, Fetishes at UIUC.
Happy Valentine’s Day
Bucknell conservatives are planning a benefit flower sale, while their liberal counterparts sell crude items and The Vagina Monologues.
Academia and Media Fraud
In school reports and newspapers, hoaxes and fraud get treated like fact all too often.
Schools Need Tough Love Reform
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.
Schreck
Mal Kline exposes the illusory nature of McCarthyism in academia by examining testimony of Dr. Ellen Schrecker.
A Call for Justice
A letter from a concerned alumnus regarding The University of the South.
Recent Articles
Academics Ignore Saudi King’s Human Rights Abuses, Praise Education Dollars
The deceased Saudi King Abdullah sent tens of thousands of students to study overseas from his home country, which isn’t a bad thing. But, to overlook his human rights abuses? Not good at all.
Harvard Law Professors defend Alan Dershowitz against Sex Abuse Allegations
We’ll see how the legal process turns out, but too often professors are insulated and protected by academia when it comes to harassment and the like. However, this is a part of a larger scandal,…
More Latinos in Community Colleges than Others, Report finds
Other findings were that 18% of Latino students were learning English as a second language and made strides in earning an associate’s degree via community colleges.
Remedial Radical Professors
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….
America has an Estimated 2.2 Million Homeschooled Children
That’s quite a big number and it is growing. Also, the good news is that a good amount of local school districts are easing rules on restricting homeschooling.
Condoleezza Rice takes over Jeb Bush’s Educational Foundation
The former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is taking over Jeb Bush’s education outfit now that Jeb is running in the 2016 race for president. What isn’t said is that Jeb Bush’s Foundation for Excellence in…
Pennsylvania School District tells Mother she can’t Homeschool her 17-year-old daughter
The Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) pointed out that there is no state law for restrictions on age of homeschooled children.
MLA Ignores Victims of Communism
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…
MLA Style
Find out what English professors think they know in the latest issue of Accuracy in Academia’s monthly Campus Report newsletter.
Quick Hits: Community College Grad Rates
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…