David Randall

David Randall

This study explores the history of Americans' birthright of liberty. We teach our children social studies, above all history and civics, so they can know what liberty is, where America&#......

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David Randall, Warren Kindzierski and Stanley Young

Shifting Sands: Flimsy Food Findings examines how irreproducible science affects select areas of government policy and regulation governed by different federal agencies. This second report focuse......

• Legislation, Federal
• Irreproducibility
• FDA

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David Randall

Americans strongly disagree about how our K-12 schools should teach our system of self-government. Dozens of organizations offer rival civics education resources and many of them don't work. A new......

• K-12 Education
• Civics Education

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David Randall, Warren Kindzierski and Stanley Young

Shifting Sands: Unsound Science and Unsafe Regulation examines how irreproducible science affects select areas of government policy and regulation governed by different federal agencies. This fir......

• Legislation, Federal
• Irreproducibility
• EPA

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David Randall, Kevin R. C. Gutzman, Jason Ross, Bruce P. Frohnen, Amity Shlaes and William Pettinger

Skewed History: Textbook Coverage of Early America and the New Deal is a review and critique of five textbooks’ coverage of four historical periods: The European Settlement of North America......

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David Randall, Jennifer Helms and James Nations

America’s most popular science curriculum, the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), fails students. This report details how the popular curriculum omits basic tenets of science, including t......

• Irreproducibility
• Science Education

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David Randall

Disfigured History: How the College Board Demolishes the Past details the careless, politicized history in the College Board's revisions of the Advanced Placement (AP) European, United States, and......

• AP U.S. History
• AP European History
• College Board

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David Randall

Social Justice Education in America is a comprehensive examination of the inner workings of social justice advocates at more than 60 universities and how they have insinuated themselves into......

• Social Justice

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David Randall

Hundreds of American colleges and universities assign a summer reading to entering freshmen—usually one book, which is often un-academic and politically progressive. This year, Beach Books finds......

• Beach Books

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David Randall

Hundreds of American colleges and universities assign a summer reading to entering freshmen—usually one book, which is often un-academic and politically progressive. This year, Beach Books provi......

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David Randall and Christopher Welser

A reproducibility crisis afflicts a wide range of scientific and social-scientific disciplines, from epidemiology to social psychology. Many supposedly scientific results cannot be reproduced, because......

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David Randall

A resource for anyone interested in the issue of academic freedom on college campuses in America. Charting compares fourteen published statements on academic freedom in twenty-five categorie......

• AAUP
• Academic Freedom

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David Randall

The “New Civics” redefines civics as progressive political activism. Rooted in the radical program of the 1960s’ New Left, the New Civics presents itself as an up-to-date version of......

• Civics Education

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David Randall

Much of the European past goes missing in the new AP European History Course and Exam Description. The College Board tells the story of European history as the triumph of secular progressivism, and sh......

• AP European History

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David Randall

A review of "Conservatism: A Rediscovery," by Yoram Hazony, Regnery Gateway, 2022, pp. xxix + 445, $29.99 hardcover.

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David Randall

Two prominent conservative critics offer incisive evaluations of what ails the American republic. But both also exhibit an embarrassed unwillingness to conceive of the American nation as something wor......

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David Randall

A review of Disguised Academic Plagiarism: A Typology and Case Studies for Researchers and Editors by M.V. Dougherty.

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Peter Wood and David Randall

The draft Indiana Social Studies Standards provides a solid basis for social studies instruction, although they would still benefit from systematic revision.

• Legislation, State
• Civics Education
• Civics Alliance

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Peter Wood and David Randall

Tennessee's draft Social Studies Standards provides a solid basis for social studies instruction.

• Legislation, State
• Civics Education

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David Randall

South Dakota lawmakers have made great strides in revising the state's social studies standards, but much more could be done.

• History
• Legislation, State
• Civics Education
• Civics Alliance

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