Students and parents who think that they will find a conservative school south of the Mason Dixon line might want to rethink that assumption.
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Ideological Twinkie
Symbolically stiffing the nearly 8,000 students in Utah’s McKay Events Center, Michael Moore began his speech 52 minutes late.
Cultural (Uni)Diversity
Although two-thirds of colleges and universities have speech codes, administrators reveal their biases in enforcing them.
North Carolina’s Callow Core
‘Twas a time when young men and women graduated from the readin’, writin’ and ‘rithmetic of high school to the Great Works that awaited them in college, but what awaits today’s high school graduates?
Cascading Colleges, Upended Universities
Author Jim Nelson Black undertook an investigation of the politically correct, but factually less so, biases on campus today and published his research in the book Freefall of the American University.
Another Poet For Peace
When English professor Clifton Snider assigns his class an argument paper, he already knows the side of the question that he wants to hear.
College Democrats On Steroids
Metaphorically speaking, that is. Nationwide, partisan types on campus are going into overdrive on behalf of the presidential campaign, sometimes causing fistfights—and that’s just the faculty.
Exam Angst
From kindergarten to college, no one hates tests more than the students forced to take them, with the possible exception of the schools forced to administer them.
Fundamentals of Brainwashing
When psychologist Denis Nissim-Sabat takes his political positions into the classroom, he threatens to turn the science of the mind into the control of the thought.
Academia’s Mission Creep
Businesses that diversify into many different markets outside of the one where they’re very good often wind up being mediocre to poor in everything. A university that succumbs to the temptation to expand into areas other than education is apt to have the same result.
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Supplement Zinn With Facts
Purdue president Mitch Daniels’ efforts to keep Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States out of Indiana public schools while serving as governor of the state has drawn a predictable academic outcry.
Colleges Still Avoiding Evaluations
The teacher preparation report conducted by the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ), was not well-received by the academic community.
Obama Must Have Watched PBS
President Obama’s recent extemporaneous remarks about Ho Chi Minh being a Jeffersonian Democrat may be the result of his viewing the PBS series entitled Vietnam: A Television History (1983).
Spinning Homeland Security
We found an academic who actually defends the U. S. Homeland Security policy, not an easy thing to do.
Lessons From Federalist 7
Did the National Security Agency scandal have its roots in academia?
Alger Hiss’s Teachable Moments
The tendency of academic elites to embrace America’s enemies is not a new one. Indeed, the academic imprimatur on any person, place or thing should give one pause.
Cheating To The Test
Cheating on tests has reached such epidemic proportions that even the National School Boards Association (NSBA) is taking notice of it.
Atlas Shrugs in Detroit
In my native city of Detroit, Atlas has at long last shrugged.
How Elites Subvert Policy
Elites, particularly academic ones, think that foreign policy is too important to be left to the American public, but the reverse may be true.
Porn in the Dorms
A recent study features information on pornography that the average collegiate is unlikely to ever encounter on campus.