Recent Articles

College Quotas Fail Blacks

, Malcolm A. Kline

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.

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Cold War at Colgate

, Malcolm A. Kline

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.

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Ideology: A Mental Straight Jacket

, Abraham Taylor

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.

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Education Reform in the Second Term

, Larry Scholer

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.

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1+1=?

, Malcolm A. Kline

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.

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Academia vs. the Military, Again

, Malcolm A. Kline

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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Recent Articles

States Withhold Spending Facts

, Spencer Irvine

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.

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Ultimate White Collar Union

, Malcolm A. Kline

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.

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Mentoring the Misled

, John Palatiello

A businessman talks about the disconnect that occurs when professors try to guide their students through a marketplace that they don’t understand themselves.

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Century of Dubious Achievements

, Malcolm A. Kline

“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.

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