In her book The Language Police, Diane Ravitch opens our eyes to the world behind school textbooks, a world ruled by censorship and dictated by the demands of interest groups.
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Universities Dis Veterans
When colleges and universities talk about inclusion, there is always one group that they try to leave out—Vietnam War veterans.
Notes From A Public School Teacher
A veteran public school teacher offers some observations that the National Education Association probably won’t like.
Anti-Catholic Catholic Schools
There is no question that most academicians are liberal acolytes. There is no question that this is true even among so-called religious institutions.
Education By The Book, Unfortunately
If a public-school student gets to college without knowing when the Civil War was fought or how to do basic math, part of the problem may be with the student’s textbook.
Games Counselors Play
With so much school time given over to counseling rather than education, we thought that we would take a look at one of the games that counselors play, literally.
Martin Luther King, Jr., Multiculturally
Oregon State University celebrates Dr. King’s life with a film about gay rights and the Boy Scouts.
The Bias Of Special Education
School Administrators in inner cities have put troubled pupils in special education classes, whether those students are disabled or not.
Academics At War, With The Military
Many universities do not like America’s armed forces, especially on their own campuses, our correspondent concludes.
Studies Vouch For Private Schools
Students who can transfer out of inner city public schools and into private schools get better grades in a less segregated environment.
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Pedagogy of The Oppressive
A fascinating anomaly of the academic Left: No matter how many institutions they and their policies dominate, they still view themselves as downtrodden, even in the circles in which they are dominant.
Racial Preferences’ Illusory Benefit
Colleges are widely applying racial preferences to the apparent benefit of no one.
In the Vanguard
“When the College of Arts and Sciences offers its new Sexuality and Queer Studies minor in the fall semester of 2013, it will be at the vanguard of an academic discipline.”— Lauren Ober, on American University’s new course offering.
UT-Austin Increases Border Traffic
But the Border Patrol probably won’t be involved.
More Staff, Fewer Teachers
Nearly half the states have more public school staff than they have teachers.
Drag Party
“I think the party was a drag on him more than he was on the party.” New York Times columnist David Brooks on 2012 Republican candidate Mitt Romney, at Harvard late last year.
Advice For GOP From Harvard
“I will continue to write that the Republican Party should give up on those tactics that focus on voter suppression and find ways to appeal to black and brown voters instead.” Atlanta-Journal Constitution columnist Cynthia Tucker at Harvard last year, ignoring the suppression of military ballots by the Obama Administration, many of them to “black and brown voters.”
Privatizing The Public Good
Public figures who proclaim their fealty to the public good generally want to minimize their contact with the masses.
Ladies They Talk About
Two instructors from Colorado State University (CSU) taught a course in which they encouraged incarcerated women to express themselves, specifically at a local jail and “a teen girls’ group at a residential youth and family rehabilitation center.”
Catholic Bashing In Academia
For Lent, Catholics give something up. Perhaps academia could show some of the tolerance it gives itself credit for by easing up on the Catholic-bashing it engages in annually.
Book Review
Book Review: America, Guns, and Freedom
As gun rights and gun control advocates, political surrogates, spokespeople, and groups contend over the future of the Second Amendment to the Constitution, Dr. Miguel Faria, Jr., M.D. published a book that gives extensive background,…
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