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Explore the debate and science of Curriculum.

April 25, 2024

Letter: Comment on West Virginia Social Studies Standards

Peter Wood and David Randall

These Standards require substantial improvement—and that this improvement should be conducted by recruiting an independent commission to redraft new social studies standards.

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April 2, 2024

In Pursuit of Liberty

Kali Jerrard

A new report by David Randall offers a path back to excellence for higher education.

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March 25, 2024

What Should College Students Study?

David Randall

I offer Curriculum of Liberty keenly aware that it is only the latest of a great many sketches on how to redo higher education—many of them worthy, few of them influential. But the new......

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February 27, 2024

Academia’s Self-Eating Snake

Kali Jerrard

Ethnic studies and educational activism are consuming curricula and the classroom.

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October 26, 2023

Letter: Comment on Maine Social Studies Standards

Peter Wood and David Randall

The Draft Standards does a great disservice to the citizens, students, and teachers of Maine as it consists largely of education school jargon, heavily inflected by radical polemic.

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March 16, 2023

Neetu Arnold on "DEI at Arizona State University"

National Association of Scholars

NAS Fellow Neetu Arnold was recently featured on the Young Voices Radio Show. Listen in as she delves into the dark side of DEI curricula in higher education, and shines a light on the "trade secr......

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January 25, 2023

Letter: The New Mexico Public Education Department Must Revise Its Social Studies Standards

Peter Wood and David Randall

We believe that NMPED should revise its social studies standards to ensure that they provide an adequate, uniform, and sufficient social studies education to all New Mexico students.

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March 21, 2022

America's Largest System of Higher Education Proposes Political Litmus Tests

John D. Sailer

Recently proposed DEI competencies in the California Community Colleges system call for a restructuring of academic excellence, the abandonment of academic integrity, and the elimination of academic f......

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April 10, 2017

How Canon Change Should Happen

Carol Iannone

Carol Iannone argues for the traditional method of canon formation.

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March 1, 2016

The Path to Education

Eva Marie Haine

Eva Marie Haine reflects on her education as a Princeton undergraduate and suggests ways that it could have been improved.

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