As more states learn what Common Core involves, fewer of them want anything to do with it. “The number of states participating in the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) Common…
Perspectives
Libertarianism and Conservatism Not Incompatible
Supposed sages in academe and beyond have been trying to create a schism between Libertarianism and conservatism that need not exist. “Freedom and virtue have declined together and must rise together,” author M. Stanton Evans…
The Decline of English Departments
The John William Pope Center’s Jay Schalin recently published a report detailing the decline of America’s college English departments. More and more, traditional English literature classes and other similar icons of the English language in…
Antidote to White Flight: Charter and Private Schools
Liberal activists concerned about the “white flight” from cities over the past four decades may want to consider a new approach that relies upon charter and private schools to reverse the flight pattern. Santa Ana,…
M. Stanton Evans: Freedom And Virtue Must Rise Together
Stan always had a way with words:
George W. Bush on the Night of the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attacks
One of the more memorable quotes from President George W. Bush’s evening address after the terrorist attacks:
Title IX Attacks Male College Students
Young men considering college may want to look at safer pastimes, like race car driving. Colleges are hell-bent on penalizing the male gender. So far their efforts have not held up in court, yet. “In…
Immigration Lowers Educational Achievement, Survey finds
When academia, aided and abetted by international agencies, tell you something isn’t happening, there is a very good chance that it is. Take, for example, the assertion by the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA)…
Look for the Union Label
As labor union leaders high-five each other this weekend over their ancestors’ creation of the Labor Day holiday more than a century ago, we would do well to remember a bit of their history that…
College Debt is the New Normal
Professorial types are excited by a plan, courtesy of Michael L. Hays of New Mexico, to solve the college debt crisis. The irony is, it would put the onus of responsibility for college loans on some…