Starting with this fall’s freshman class, high school students in the Philadelphia School District will be required to take a courses in African and African American history in order to graduate.
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Another Professing Plagiarist?
When I first discovered the work of Columbia University professor Rashid Khalidi [pictured], I did come to one conclusion: His thoughts may be bizarre but they are his own. Now, I am not so sure.
Good News for Child Evangelists?
Two recent legal battles remind us that “religious speech is not an orphan to the First Amendment.”
Dropouts Left Behind
Education experts ask whether No Child Left Behind is worth it.
Campus Blues
In a new study Daniel Flynn exposes what many conservatives already understand: the liberal political bias present on college campuses.
A Student Remembers Ronald Reagan
When college junior Tony Maalouf brought up the anniversary of Reagan’s death with his peers, they responded with apathy.
Glass Ceiling of the MSA
Feminists at Montclair State University may want to petition the school for a portion of the income from student activity fees that the Muslim Student Association receives on the New Jersey campus.
Adding up to Failure
Students today may know less mathematics than the pupils of any previous generation but they do feel better about it.
College Reasoning at the University of Oregon
University of Oregon columnist Jennifer McBride wrote an interesting piece entitled “10 Reasons Not To Kill Bush.” I hope her parents are proud of the value they’re getting out of their daughter’s tuition.
An Academic Take on Deep Throat
History professor Joan Hoff of Montana State University, an expert on the Watergate scandal, finds it interesting that Bob Woodward is claiming that he had a close relationship with former FBI official Mark Felt, now identified as Deep Throat.
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Women Academia Doesn’t Study
Despite the breadth of attention that “women’s studies” get on campus, most of the information purveyed in them is, well, wrong.
Obama’s Failed Libyan War
The Libyan civil war did more harm to the country, its people, economy and its neighbors in North Africa when NATO intervened at the behest of U.S. President Barack Obama, concluded a University of Texas-Austin professor Alan Kuperman.
Sexed-Up Extracurriculars
If you’ve seen the occasional stories on “sex weeks” at Yale and Harvard, you might be surprised to know that many colleges and universities officially devote more than seven days to the subject.
Is Education A Social Issue?
Why don’t “conservatives” in Congress have more success in fighting the government education monolith?
Academics Citing “Experts”/Selves
Female academics and professors are worried that they are being left behind by their male colleagues, not in funding, but in self-citations.
Union Derides Common Core
When a Democratic president can’t count on full-throated support from the National Education Association (NEA), the largest teacher’s union, something may be very wrong with his education reforms.
China Abuses American Academy
The American universities pursuing cooperative relationships with their counterparts in Communist China are doing so in the hopes that these will be mutually beneficial. Yet all available evidence indicates that they are not.
Why Reagan Deserves Study
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.
Abyss of Area Studies
College and universities have one thing in common with the federal government, along with the cash that flows from the latter to the former: They seem to be following Einstein’s definition of insanity.
Education Data = Fool’s Gold
Even education insiders are beginning to acknowledge that the data mining the federal government is now engaged in under Common Core produces little in the way of education achievement.
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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