What Are Kids Reading?
Apr 09, 2012 by Ashley Thorne |
NAS board member Sandra Stotsky writes about the low levels of reading in our schools today.
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Room on the Bookshelf for Contemporary Tragedy
Apr 03, 2012 by Ashley Chandler |
Ashley Chandler appreciates the book The Hunger Games for what it offers contemporary readers and suggests it has a legitimate place alongside more "classic" literature.
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Not Hungry
Mar 28, 2012 by Ashley Thorne |
The bestselling pulp fiction book The Hunger Games fails to give Ashley Thorne an appetite for more.
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MLA Panelists Analyze Beach Books
Jan 19, 2012 by Ashley Thorne |
At this year's MLA convention, academics considered the role common reading assignments have to play in the education of college students.
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It’s Not the Test’s Fault
Dec 27, 2011 by Kate Hamilton |
Should academe leave the SAT behind? Kate Hamilton examines the current state of the test-optional admissions movement.
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Oz Revisited
Dec 19, 2011 by Peter Wood |
A new book by the author of Wicked channels the contemporary academic unrelenting focus on race, gender, class, colonialism, and sustainability.
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Virtue and Western Civilization
Dec 15, 2011 by William H. Young |
William Young discusses the decline of virtue, once integral to the educational process in the Western tradition.
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UNC Hosts Stage Adaptation of Common Book Assignment ‘Eating Animals’
Nov 30, 2011 by Ashley Thorne |
This fall the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill hosted several events related to its common reading assignment, Eating Animals, by Jonathan Safran Foer.
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The Curriculum of Forgetting
Nov 28, 2011 by Peter Wood |
Peter Wood proposes a cure for higher education’s forgetfulness about the West’s cultural heritage.
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How Will the Decline of Used-Book Stores Influence Scholarship?
Nov 18, 2011 by Peter Wood |
With so many used-book stores closing their doors, Peter Wood considers the effect of their disappearance on Academe.
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Maybe the SAT Isn’t So Bad After All
Nov 02, 2011 by George Leef |
In his recent book Uneducated Guesses, Howard Wainer finds that when schools go "test optional," the students who decide not to report their scores will be academically weaker ones.
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Is Tenure the Root of All Evil?
Oct 17, 2011 by George Leef |
No, but it's responsible for much that is wrong in higher education, argues Naomi Schaefer Riley in her recent book The Faculty Lounges.
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Meatlessness and Sustainability, Part 1
Oct 14, 2011 by Ashley Thorne |
How is vegetarianism connected to sustainability? Ashley Thorne decides to find out.
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Is Higher Ed on the Brink of Major Change?
Oct 12, 2011 by George Leef |
In the recent book by Clay Christensen and Henry Eyring, The Innovative University, the authors contend that many colleges and universities will be left in the dust unless they figure out how to adapt, much as companies have crumbled… Continue Reading | 1 Comment >
The University of Stonehenge
Oct 11, 2011 by Peter Wood |
History is large, a new book reminds us. But, Peter Wood writes, too often our study of it is small.
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