Arizona, also known as the Grand Canyon State, is no stranger to controversy when it comes to its taxpayer-funded colleges and universities. This time, there are claims that the University of Arizona (UA), Arizona State…
Topic: National Association of Scholars
Group: AP European History Exams Ignore Christopher Columbus, Magellan and Important Subjects in History
Advanced Placement exams for European history are full of “progressive propaganda,” claimed a higher education group. The reason for those claims? Excluding Christopher Columbus from the course material.
Reinserting History in AP Courses
Complaining works.
Scholar: Time to Fix American Education and Teach American Exceptionalism
Peter Wood of the National Association of Scholars (NAS) was interviewed by the Daily Caller and had a lot to say on the lack of balanced teaching and instruction in the higher education/college system in…
Perverting College Coursework to Conform to Ideology
Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared at the Times of Israel. In April of 2012, the California Association of Scholars, a division of the National Association of Scholars, prepared a report for the University of…
Millennial Protesters Aren’t Well-Read
How do student protestors today differ from their predecessors back in the 1960s? The latter were more well-read. “This is a post-literacy generation,” Peter Wood of the National Association of Scholars (NAS) said recently at…
Scholars Address Academic Freedom in Wake of Protests
The National Association of Scholars (NAS) on the issue to clarify what is going on at college campuses. Photo by Me2 (Me Too)
The Cost of Common Core
It may not work terribly well but Common Core sure is expensive. “The treatment of textbooks as mountains of words is one of the signature elements of Common Core,” Peter Wood of the National Association…
Professors Avoid Participating in Research about Divestment due to Politics
The College Fix with the latest: When National Association of Scholars research associate Rachelle Peterson recently attempted to interview a Harvard professor who is part of the university’s divestment movement, he told her he advocated…
Sustainability in Higher Education
Sustainability has become a recurring theme among American colleges, and whether it’s through university curricula or carbon offsets, this new-wave has pressed students to organize into a radical progressive movement. In a 2015 report,…