Now it’s Barack Obama’s turn at bat at the department of Education and we are looking at more expensive strikeouts.
Perspectives
Dude, where’s my community?
Stanford University’s John W. Gardner Center and The Center for American Progress have found a way to dip into education – they want to turn traditional schools into full service hubs, something they like to call “community schools.”
Awakening on Catholic Campuses
The Obama Administration’s ruling that Catholic institutions, including schools, provide birth control, sterilization and abortificants on demand may have had a unifying effect they never bargained for—of Catholics against the policy.
All Education Is Local
Conservatism and education: two things you don’t often see mixed together – except when the federal government gets caught extending its hand into the classroom.
AIA On Speech Codes
Accuracy in Academia has signed onto a letter to the U. S. Department of Education urging the agency not to encourage more restrictive speech codes at colleges and universities.
Community Organizing @ AU Law
In American University’s law school lecture series this Spring, legal training is virtually indistinguishable from community organizing.
Da U & Roe v. Wade
The University of Scranton, which bills itself as “a nationally recognized Catholic and Jesuit university in Pennsylvania’s Pocono Mountains region,” has invited a pro-choice speaker to its campus—former U. S. Rep. Marjorie Margolies.
Occupy the MLA
Seattle, WA— At the Modern Language Association (MLA) annual meeting last week, English professor Joseph Ramsey pretty much said that when college activists in the faculty and the student body are finished hibernating, they will go back to doing the one thing that we know collegiates for decades have been trained to do—protest.
Token Republicans In Academia
One of many ways to gauge the political tilt of academia is to see how many cabinet members from past presidential administrations have obtained academic berths.
Affirmative Action or Privilege?
Dr. Anthony Bradley, author of the new book Black and Tired: Essays on Race, Politics, Culture, and International Development, spoke at the Heritage Foundation about his research on the downward moral trend of black culture in America.