Labor unions typically control large urban school districts and often obstruct comprehensive reform.
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Sex Ed Curriculum Scrapped
On May 23 the Montgomery County School Board voted to completely scrap a controversial sex education curriculum.
Disposition for Bias
Dozens of prominent education programs across the country demand that their students promote social justice.
Footsteps towards the Light
Students are moving away from politically correct humanities majors and courses towards the social sciences.
Assessing Educational Success
What else needs to be done to measure the success of North Carolina education?
If These Ivy Halls Could Talk
The recent book, Out of Ivy, gives an inside account of what happens when a student goes ivy.
Campus PC Rebellion
Parents aren’t the only ones bristling over campus political correctness battles, and the prospect of paying over $200,000 per child for four years of college. Contributions from alumni have declined steadily over the past several years and now hover around 13 percent.
Class Notes
Fired essentially for no other reason than acting on her conservative Republican beliefs in her free time, acclaimed sociologist Jean Cobbs has long been a dissident whose tribulations AIA has followed with concern.
What UNC Needs in a President
The University of North Carolina system is hunting for a new president. Molly C. Broad, the current president, has announced her resignation.
CINO Spotlight on DePaul
Given the school’s propensity to discipline professors who make pro-Israel statements and defend those who attack Church policy and traditions, a case could be made to name DePaul University in Chicago as a college that is Catholic in Name Only.
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Dumbed-Down Common Core
Big name Republicans and putative conservatives signing onto the Obama Administration’s Common Core education reforms in the belief that they will raise standards in public schools may want to entertain the possibility that they will actually lower them.
Stuck in the Sixties
Academics, the very people who claim they want “progress” “going forward,” frequently want to turn back the clock a half century or so.
Columbia Credits Fox
The Columbia Journalism Review, which is not known for its conservative views, published an article yesterday by Alexis Sobel Fitts that credits Fox News for giving opponents more of a voice than does MSNBC.
Universities Want More Money
A team of researchers from Penn looked at the condition of higher education and came to about the same conclusion that academics usually come to when pressed to make a self-examination: Universities need more money.
Common Core: Epic Fail
One of the fascinating things about journalism is looking at the factual data that both sides of a controversy agree on and finding that the facts support the critics’ viewpoints.
Common Core: It Lives!
Opposition to the Common Core education reform efforts of the Obama Administration has crossed political lines to a remarkable degree.
Blue Campuses Get Bluer
The Obama Administration’s former Homeland Security Chief has taken over the University of California. “Janet Napolitano had zero experience leading a college before she became president of the University of California last year,” Eric Kelderman wrote in The Chonicle of Higher Education.
Professoriate’s Self-Proclaimed Neutrality
With a straight face, professors mostly tell you that they avoid advocacy.
Checks, Balances, And Checkbooks
One wonders whether Christie ever imagined such a small return on the personal political investment he made when praising the Obama Administration’s declaration of superintendence over Hurricane Sandy relief a week before the 2012 presidential election.
Higher Education’s Debt Kiss
The U. S. Department of Education wants for-profit colleges to prove that their graduates are gainfully employed. For their part, the for-profits claim that their non-profit counterparts would fail such a test.
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
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Ayn Rand Reconsidered
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