In days of yore, school assemblies gave us a break from heavy-duty note taking and the chance to daydream virtually without penalty. Today, daydreaming may be something that you can get extra credit for.
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UNschooled
Each school that participates in the program will be designated a ‘United Nations Global Peace School’ by the U.N.’s Special Representative of the Secretary General for Children and Armed
Conflict.
Grammar under Siege
Too many students are finding that it is hard to be truly multicultural and learn a second language when you have not been taught how to use your mother tongue.
Pig Pool
There is nothing guaranteed to put your school on the map faster than getting involved in a battle over animal rights.
Confronting bin Laden
While most Americans made their minds up about Osama bin Laden after the September 11, 2001 attacks upon the United States, academics are still grappling with their views of the terrorist leader and his followers four years after the 9/11 massacres.
Waiting For A Rally
Organizers had hoped to hold that the Wold Can’t Wait walkout and protest in more than 70 cities, 45 colleges and 75 high schools but looking at the reports on their websites they fell far short of those goals as well as the total number of demonstrators.
School Bullies
Can anyone tell me the difference between recruiting for the Army and recruiting for the Democrats?
Halloweenies
Halloween may be over but the controversy over the holiday still lingers especially in the hearts and minds of the political correctness crowd.
Field Trips
Political rallies seem to be displacing museum trips as class field trip venues.
Animal Liberation 101
The Animal Liberation Front, one of the most serious domestic terror threats according to the FBI, has been wreaking havoc on universities for years, causing millions of dollars in property damage by raiding research laboratories, but now a professor of philosophy is accused of helping support their terrorism.
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STEMming China’s Student Espionage
When the reasons mount for rethinking cherished academic practices, academia doubles down on those procedures. For example, as the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) and others have shown, there is no shortage of science, technology,…
Paul Kengor on Why We Should Study Ronald Reagan
Although it may be considered quaint to recall the Reagan years during the Obama era, particularly in academic circles, a case could be made for doing so. “And though Barack Obama won two terms, he…
Common Core: Beyond Rote
As we’ve noted before, when proponents of the Obama Administration’s Common Core education reforms try to make the case for the program, they often end up giving material to its opponents. Case in point: the Center…
MESA Culpa
Accuracy in Academia has proudly joined a distinguished cadre questioning the federal funding of biased Middle East studies programs in American universities and colleges, and academic elites in those programs don’t like it one bit….
Republican Sighted in Academe!
Academia is up in arms. The board of trustees at Florida State University (FSU) just named a Republican to be its president. Something called the FSU Progress Coalition just posted its concerns on the Academe…
MOOCs Expand, Homeschoolers Beware
The School Reform News, published by the Heartland Institute, found there are over 1,200 massive open online courses, or MOOCs, offered by over 200 universities and taken by an estimated ten million K-12 students. Florida…
RIP Wesley McDonald, scholar on Russell Kirk and Conservatism
Wesley McDonald 1946 – 2014 Wesley McDonald, a professor of Political Science at Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania, an author, and a leading authority on the scholar, Russell Kirk, died on September 9 at John Hopkins…
AIA Remembers Wesley McDonald, a Good Friend
Accuracy in Academia lost a great friend with the Passing of Wes McDonald. We reviewed his fine book on a great man back in 2004: Because we can frequently find answers to present problems…
ObamaCare hits George Washington University
The faculty at George Washington University made substantial contributions to President Obama when he was seeking that office. They are about to contribute heavily towards their own medical care now that his Obamacare is the…
A More Moderate Millennial?
Believe it or not, even the Obama kids are shifting right. Read the story in the latest issue of Accuracy in Academia’s monthly Campus Report newsletter.
Book Review
Book Review: Is ‘The Dying Citizen’ a Prediction of America’s Future?
America’s ongoing and seemingly-constant crises have left Americans scrambling to find a sense of normalcy and safety. Just in time, to cut through the chaotic bombardment of conflicting messages and opinions while providing a voice…
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The Origins of Political Correctness
Emerson College: ‘Homosexual’ is Offensive to Gays so Stop Using It
Self-Identifying Marxist Professors Outnumber Conservatives as College Professors
Ayn Rand Reconsidered
Black Lives Matter Lists “White Supremacy, Patriarchy, Capitalism” Among Reasons for Orlando Attack
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