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Textbook Bias Against Israel
A student discovers an anti-Israel bias in her high school history book.
Yearbook Caption Spawns Secret Service Investigation
High school students in Colorado learned that supposedly harmless pranks can have serious consequences.
American University Hosts EcoTerrorist
American University went beyond being environmentally-friendly when it hosted convicted eco-terrorist Rodney Coronado two years ago.
Make North Carolina Competitive
Spending $34.2 billion in two years? That’s a tall order. But not for North Carolina legislators…
Diversity Mania Gets More Costly
East Carolina University will hire a new administrator with the title Assistant to the Chancellor for Institutional Diversity. ECU already has in place such diversity offices as its Office of Intercultural Student Affairs and its Office of Institutional Equity,
Patriot Graves
The greatest danger facing this country is the one that still doesn’t make many headlines—our collective national amnesia.
Principal Prep
While teacher quality often is the focus of improving schools, the role of the principal cannot be overlooked, especially as a motivator for teachers.
Graduation Day Acknowledgments
Students and invited speakers do not shed their constitutional rights when they step up to the graduation podium. Expressing faith in God does not disqualify a student from delivering a graduation message.
Religious Expression at Graduation Ceremonies and Assemblies
It is well settled that the First Amendment fully protects the free speech rights of students, and the Supreme Court has emphasized that religious speech is entitled to the same protections.
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Academic Selfies
One of the fascinating dichotomies in academia is that its denizens, who more often than any other group, profess themselves obsessed with society, are more likely to show themselves absorbed with self.
NPR On Weird College Courses
Even National Public Radio (NPR) occasionally realizes that some college courses are straight from la-la land.
Post-racial America?
A panel at the Center for American Progress discussed “The Meaning of Race in a 21st-Century America,” billed as an “in-depth discussion on the meaning of race and ethnicity in a changing America.”
The Other Academic Complex
The growth of the post-WWII “military-social-industrial-
Wing and Prayer Decoupled
The hot seat just got hotter for Air Force officials at today’s House Armed Services hearing.
Ayn Rand Reconsidered
She’s been derided in academia for decades: Panels disparaging her works are not unusual at the Modern Language Association’s annual confab.
Defending the Indefensible, Academically
Perhaps the Obama Administration’s foreign policy is becoming so indefensible that even its best and brightest academic defenders are becoming tongue tied defending it.
Academics behind Knowledge Curve
When professors attempt to show that they are up on current events, they might prove just the opposite.
Boyz 2 Men, Not
Usually, denizens of that epicenter of arrested adolescence—academia—can’t notice that trend in society at large, or even in their own back yards, or campuses. Gary Cross is an exception to the rule. “For some time, we’ve been…
Is higher ed a job killer?
Those who argue that higher education is a major league time suck just got more ammunition in a report from the U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).
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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