Colleges celebrate the notion that their campuses are a forum for the free expression of ideas. Now while that be a noble goal, from all appearances, that seems to be far from reality today.
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School Stops Presses
A Michigan high school forbids conservative students from distributing a newspaper. Two of the students tell their story.
Diversity Deconstructed
Texas A & M is something of a novelty in academia. The university’s president, Robert M. Gates, is one of the rare retired cabinet officials from a Republican presidential administration to hold a decisive academic position.
A Head Start for the Achievement Gap
Policymakers have long thought the solution to the achievement gap to be in early childhood education.
History & Film Revisionism
I have an interesting story that I believe you may find interesting. Please let me relay the story as it occurred.
The CTA Goes Radioactive
The 335,000-member California Teachers Association, the state’s most powerful union, is airing radio spots claiming that Governor Schwarzenegger wants to “stiff our kids for $2 billion every year!” Does he?
Take that Spain!
Irvine Valley College and Saddleback College in southern California have decided to end their 14 year old study abroad program in Spain.
Baltimore Community College Bias
I have gone to The Community College of Baltimore County in Maryland for a few years now. During this time I have taken many different types of classes to fulfill requirements, most of them in which I came up against leftist propaganda.
The UNC System’s Use of Diversity Bonuses: Begging for a Lawsuit?
The law school of the flagship campus of the UNC system files an amicus brief in a Supreme Court case dealing with a question in the field of public education. The case is decided largely to the law school’s liking. Yet, the UNC system as a whole, and several individual UNC campuses might be in violation of the Court’s ruling.
Whose History?
A recent lecture at Bowdoin College has roiled the Maine campus. On February 22 the Bowdoin College Republicans hosted Vernon Robinson, a North Carolina conservative activist and former candidate for the House of Representatives.
Recent Articles
Make Football, Not War
Find out what, and who, is behind the war on football in the latest issue of Accuracy in Academia’s monthly Campus Report newsletter.
What’s an Effective Teacher?
Today, 27 states and the District of Columbia require annual, yearly teacher evaluations when only 15 states had that requirement in 2009.
Teachers’ Union Doesn’t Like Common Core
Inevitably, the discussion veered from teacher-evaluation criteria at the federal and state levels to upcoming requirements of Common Core.
Cornell vs. Literature
If you love literature and go to Cornell, you’re probably in the wrong place.
Alive & Tribal
“Tribalism in the Middle East is not only alive and kicking, it is alive and killing.”
—Dr. Mordechai Kedar, professor of Arabic at Bar Ilan University, in a forum on Capitol Hill sponsored by the Endowment for Middle East Truth.
Filling Academic Memory Holes
Here’s why we keep going: to rescue history from the memory hole academia has created.
Doh!
“It’s alarming to me that most [Das]Capital-quoters I have encountered are white men.”
—Andrew Seal, Ph.D. candidate in American Studies at Yale. (The Chronicle Review, B16, November 22, 2013.
Is Cornell in America?
Public schools used to assign “What my country means to me” as an essay topic. One wonders what one would get from such an exercise if it were given to Cornell undergrads who got a chance to take the full panoply of courses available there under the heading, American Studies.
Burying History @ Cornell
Currently academics debate whether they should be “sages on the stage” or “guides on the side.” It never occurs to them that they might not be very good in either role.
MIT Meteorologist Debunks Global Warming
Richard Lindzen, a former meteorologist at MIT, in his first presentation as the newest distinguished fellow at the libertarian think tank Cato Institute, tore into global warming alarmists.
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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