When academic studies back up Obama Administration policies, you will never hear the end of them. When they don’t, you will never hear the beginning of them. Take, for example, the recent study by Johns…
Topic: U.S.
Colleges Pressured to Divest from Fossil Fuels
But, if American colleges and universities do divest from fossil fuels, then how can they increase their endowment funds? Fossil fuels are quite profitable, but then again, it could hasten the demise of liberal, leftist…
Cornell Students Under Investigation for ObamaCare Fees Protest
This is utterly ridiculous. Now students who protested the school’s ObamaCare fee are under a criminal investigation.
Religious Colleges May Lose Tax-Exempt Status after Supreme Court Ruling
As The College Fix reported: “Something that didn’t draw much attention in yesterday’s Supreme Court oral argument over whether the Constitution mandates the legal recognition of same-sex marriage: how it may affect religious colleges.”
U.S. Eighth Graders Struggle in U.S. History
As the Washington Examiner reported: “Less than one-in-five eighth graders have a proficient grasp of United States history, and less than a quarter have a proficient grasp of civics, according to new government data released…
Bad News about Alternative Lifestyles
This year, a Catholic University sociologist published results of a study of children of same-sex parents that runs counter to much of the happy talk on the subject emanating from academia. “In the past two…
It’s a Small Minority After All
Liberals have long wanted you to believe there’s a consensus in America for redefining marriage, but now they are going global! Last month, Yale Law School Dean Harold Koh, along with a team of foreign…
What if Abe Lincoln Lived?
Would the Civil Rights movement have taken place if Abraham Lincoln survived the assassin’s bullet delivered by John Wilkes Booth? Allen Guelzo, a civil war era professor at Gettysburg College, posed this question in a…
Roots of Revisionism
At Accuracy in Academia, we have long complained of academic historians who ignore primary sources in favor of secondary ones. What gets lost in that process from the former approach to the latter one is,…
Delaying Common Core the Chicago Way
Opposition to Common Core continues to spread well across party lines, no matter how much the educational establishment tires to minimize the blowback. “Illinois state officials have threatened to withhold funding from school districts that…