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January 6, 2010

Can Arne Duncan make our Ed Schools Good?

George Leef

Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has spoken about the mediocrity of most education schools and says he is committed to improving them. I'm skeptical. I don't think he really understands wh......

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January 6, 2010

Intergenerational Learning

David Clemens

Last fall I convened a panel on Great Books for the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics.  One panelist, Joshua Cohen, Assistant Professor of Literature at the Massachusetts College of&......

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January 6, 2010

On Letting Education Interfere with Football

robkoons

When Quincy Wagstaff (Groucho Marx) takes over as the new president of Huxley College in the Horse Feathers, he complains that the administration had allowed “education to interfere with footb......

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January 6, 2010

Swamped: Florida's Earth Charter U

Ashley Thorne

Florida Gulf Coast University centers its curriculum on sustainability and the UN document the Earth Charter.

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January 4, 2010

The Sheer Racism of 'White' Science

Candace de Russy

If we don't somehow manage to wrest the public schools from the clutches of the left, it will bring us all down. A recent example of its insanity is the approval of a proposal (scheduled&nb......

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