Search results for "Department of Education"

Why do professors hate to discuss the successes of welfare reform?

It looks like Erskine Bowles could be the next Larry Summers.

Unfortunately, constant change in standardized testing poses a bit of a problem for those of us bogged down by an interest in accuracy.

“Teachers for a Democratic Society,” as they call themselves, are professors from across the country trying to defend Ward Churchill, now that the University of Colorado has fired him.

As readers of this space know, we frequently subject academics to what we view as constructive criticism. As travelers through the blogosphere may have noticed, they sometimes answer those critiques.

A letter responding to Academic Evangelicals by Mal Kline.

The academic left has painted itself into a peculiar corner. They urge the rejection of traditional grammar as chauvinistic, or, more frequently, “hegemonic.” Unfortunately for them, they eventually have to read papers by students who have previously been taught by teachers who also share this outlook.

Critics of higher education who say American colleges do not prepare students for life after graduation may be way off base: Among federal judges, the problem may be that they do try to apply their education to the post-graduate day jobs that they hold.

Creating legislation is a messy job, especially state budgets.

Mayor’s should beware of asserting control over public schools.

Do religious students fare better than their secular counterparts?

Learn why Barbie is racist and earn college credit for it at Occidental College and Duke University.