Full Online Access to Academic Questions
May 09, 2013 by Ashley Thorne |
NAS members who wish to read Academic Questions online can do so by creating a user account at the website of the journal's publisher.
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Spring 2013 Academic Questions Issue is Out
May 02, 2013 by Ashley Thorne |
The first issue of NAS's quarterly journal's 2013 volume focuses on the Common Core, civics education, racial preferences, and important new books in higher education.
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Both Wrong and Bad
Apr 17, 2013 by Carl Cohen |
In a review essay, Cohen says Russell Nieli's Wounds That Will Not Heal "contends that the products of race preference, or affirmative action, are bad—very, very bad."
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The Common Core State Standards: Two Views
Apr 16, 2013 by Jane Robbins, Mark Bauerlein |
Jane Robbins describes the defects in the Common Core State Standards for English and math; Mark Bauerlein responds, seeing opportunity rather than disaster.
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A Hundred Ideas for Reforming Higher Education
Feb 08, 2013 by Peter Wood |
The status quo is so deeply entrenched that only a fantasy map will get us out of the Great Gillikin Forest to the Emerald City, from the Inferno to the Paradiso.
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One Hundred Great Ideas for Higher Education
Feb 07, 2013 by |
Richard Arum, Jill Biden, Andrew Delbanco, Joseph Epstein, Victor Davis Hanson, Wilfred McClay, Charles Murray, Ibn Warraq, Tom Wolfe, and many others share their ideas for reforming higher education.
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Ideas for Higher Education
Oct 15, 2012 by Ashley Thorne |
The Chronicle of Higher Education has a special report, "College, Reinvented," in which fifteen reporters each offer an idea for improving higher education.… Continue Reading | Leave a Comment >
AQ Fall 2012 Issue: “A Crucible Moment? A Forum on the President’s Call for a…
Sep 12, 2012 by Crystal Plum |
The fall 2012 issue of NAS’s journal Academic Questions presents a forum in which scholars respond to a call for a new kind of civics education.
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New Cogs for Old
Sep 05, 2012 by Daniel J. Flynn |
The report "A Crucible Moment," correctly diagnoses the problem of using higher education primarily as job training but mistakenly encourages us to use it primarily as political training, writes Daniel J. Flynn.
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Civics without a Country?
Aug 27, 2012 by Diana Schaub |
The call for renewed civic activism in schools and colleges neglects a true understanding of American ideals and history in favor of "global citizenship."
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An Unbalanced Crucible
Aug 24, 2012 by Patrick J. Deneen |
"Civic education is again in vogue," writes Patrick J. Deneen, but it has been "wholly redefined and retooled for progressive purposes."
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Against “Diversity”
Aug 22, 2012 by John Rosenberg, Roger Clegg |
Roger Clegg and John S. Rosenberg offer ten reasons to oppose the "diversity" rationale for racial preferences. They argue that "diversity" is discrimination, and provide evidence that its costs are high.
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Unfashionable Ideas
Jul 20, 2012 by Peter Wood |
Peter Wood reviews the National Association of Scholars’ changing approach to reforming higher education.
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“Frauds, Fallacies, Fads, and Fictions” Journal Issue Coming Soon
Jun 04, 2012 by Ashley Thorne |
The 2012 summer issue of NAS’s journal Academic Questions takes a look at some instances where scholarship’s integrity slips.
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Dismissive Reviews: Academe’s Memory Hole
May 30, 2012 by Richard P. Phelps |
Richard R. Phelps exposes how scholars fail to consult the research that has been done on their chosen topic and blandly claim themselves to be pioneers in the area.
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