Though few educators themselves can tell you whether teachers give too much or too little homework, most research shows that students are not overburdened with studying.
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Class Warfare In Education
The push towards equality in education has made a casualty of excellence, a political science professor finds.
The Internet (PG)
Children of all ages who surf the internet tend to watch less TV and read more but a veteran psychologist urges parental guidance.
Civil Liberties On Campus At Risk, Part II
Today in the United States there is a growing conflict between anti-discrimination law and civil liberties, particularly on college campuses, a legal scholar finds.
Social Forces At American University
Students who take “Social Forces That Shaped America,” a history class currently offered at American University in Washington, D. C., may find themselves inundated with political correctness.
History Lesson: The New Deal Revisited
Educators have told generations of students that President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal ended the Great Depression but the actual history of the era tells a different story.
The NEA vs. Teachers
Despite its power, the National Education Association’s membership may ultimately be its undoing as rank and file teachers find little in common with their representatives.
Education: Parental Guidance Suggested
Two scholars find that the solution to the problems in education lies not in more government involvement but in greater parental control.
College Targets Bake Sales And Free Speech
Colleges and universities shut down bake sales designed to illustrate the race-based admissions policies at those schools but are frequently at a loss to show what laws are at stake.
Religion on campus need not be an oxymoron
Many college students and even more university administrators do not realize that the former not only have the consitutional right to worship but can do so on campus.
Recent Articles
Pedagogy of The Oppressive
A fascinating anomaly of the academic Left: No matter how many institutions they and their policies dominate, they still view themselves as downtrodden, even in the circles in which they are dominant.
Racial Preferences’ Illusory Benefit
Colleges are widely applying racial preferences to the apparent benefit of no one.
In the Vanguard
“When the College of Arts and Sciences offers its new Sexuality and Queer Studies minor in the fall semester of 2013, it will be at the vanguard of an academic discipline.”— Lauren Ober, on American University’s new course offering.
UT-Austin Increases Border Traffic
But the Border Patrol probably won’t be involved.
More Staff, Fewer Teachers
Nearly half the states have more public school staff than they have teachers.
Drag Party
“I think the party was a drag on him more than he was on the party.” New York Times columnist David Brooks on 2012 Republican candidate Mitt Romney, at Harvard late last year.
Advice For GOP From Harvard
“I will continue to write that the Republican Party should give up on those tactics that focus on voter suppression and find ways to appeal to black and brown voters instead.” Atlanta-Journal Constitution columnist Cynthia Tucker at Harvard last year, ignoring the suppression of military ballots by the Obama Administration, many of them to “black and brown voters.”
Privatizing The Public Good
Public figures who proclaim their fealty to the public good generally want to minimize their contact with the masses.
Ladies They Talk About
Two instructors from Colorado State University (CSU) taught a course in which they encouraged incarcerated women to express themselves, specifically at a local jail and “a teen girls’ group at a residential youth and family rehabilitation center.”
Catholic Bashing In Academia
For Lent, Catholics give something up. Perhaps academia could show some of the tolerance it gives itself credit for by easing up on the Catholic-bashing it engages in annually.
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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