Rod Paige reflected on his tenure at the Department of Education and asserted the importance of continuing the reforms of the past four years
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Western Civilization Reconsidered
The material covered in Western Civ is not important only for one’s academic foundation, but also for the understanding of culture and one’s place in that culture.
Politically Incorrect Historian
The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History traces America’s history from the pilgrims to the Clinton years, drawing on some rarely seen historical quotations.
College Quotas Fail Blacks
After three decades of affirmative action in education, American blacks find themselves less likely to go to college than they did before the U. S. Congress made a mid-20th Century correction in civil rights laws, a new study finds.
The Top 10 Nuttiest Campus Events in N.C. Higher Education in 2004
At the end of every year I compile this list, and every year I include a “hope for more” in the following year. And every year, I haven’t been disappointed in that hope.
Cold War at Colgate
Although most Americans credit President Ronald Reagan with winning this country’s Cold War with the former Soviet Union, many universities offer a different spin on the half-century-old conflict, such as the one frequently taught at Colgate University.
Ideology: A Mental Straight Jacket
Many widely respected ideologues willfully ignore reality in support of their agendas, the former executive director of Accuracy in Academia told the audience at a recent luncheon sponsored by Accuracy in Media.
Education Reform in the Second Term
After the 2004 election the President remarked that he had earned political capital, and on Monday it became clear that he intended to spend some of it on advancing the education reforms of his first term.
1+1=?
Those of us who suffered through the old math nevertheless saw the nice, linear relationship between the first numbers that we learned to add and subtract and the checkbooks that we had to balance later in life. Today’s public school students are not always so fortunate.
Academia vs. the Military, Again
Students, and faculty, who want to serve their country can expect to traverse a metaphoric obstacle course laid out by college administrators before running on a real one for their drill instructors.
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Where The Left Succeeds
Whatever their intentions, the political left is doing a better job of debunking the Obama Administration’s rationale for war than are some Republicans.
Poynter: Traditional Colleges Unsustainable
Technology is changing the face of journalism in addition to the value (or perception of value) of a journalism degree.
States Withhold Spending Facts
The Cato Institute’s recent report, Cracking the Books: How Well Do State Education Departments Report Public School Spending? highlighted the problems of school spending that face parents, students and school administrators on all levels.
Ultimate White Collar Union
Something happened to the labor movement when it went from blue collar to white collar. This is nowhere more apparent than in the various teachers’ and professors’ unions.
Mentoring the Misled
A businessman talks about the disconnect that occurs when professors try to guide their students through a marketplace that they don’t understand themselves.
College Paper’s Sleeper Circulation
Daily Illini at the University of Illinois may have come up with the best reason for eliminating one edition of the paper—sleeping students.
Big Brother Gets Personal
FRONT ROYAL, VA — Four years ago, Obama’s Chicago crew borrowed a page from the Three-Card-Monte hustlers in Manhattan’s Central Park.
George Washington Skipped Here
If the father of our country saw some of the courses available at the university that bears his name, he might have never left Mount Vernon.
Financial Aid for Wealthy
One-third of the students who get financial aid come from families who make $100,000 or more a year.
Century of Dubious Achievements
“As summer becomes fall, we commence the 100th anniversary of that most glorious of all the violations of the United States Constitution, the Federal Reserve.” Seth Lipsky, The American Spectator, September 2013.