June 18, 2010

Is U.S. Edu-Rhetoric a Pipe Dream? A Teacher Wants to Know

Ashley Thorne

Teachers should be evaluated based on student performance - but on several conditions, says op-ed.

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June 17, 2010

Science vs. Faith or Science and Faith?

Glenn Ricketts

If you follow the comment threads in places where anything concerning science is being discussed, you've probably noticed how little it takes to get some posters really apoplectic about the dang......

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June 17, 2010

Scholars Join Fight to Save 209

The California Association of Scholars, an affiliate of the NAS, has filed a motion to intervene in a lawsuit against Proposition 209.

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June 17, 2010

Collegiate Press Roundup 6-17-10

Glenn Ricketts

In student news this week are opinions about student apathy, impediments to intellectual openness, the possible connection between federally subsidized corn and immigration problems, what to read du......

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June 16, 2010

The Avalanche of Useless Academic Research

George Leef

In this Chronicle article, Mark Bauerlein, Mohamad Gad-el-Hak, Wayne Grody, Bill McKelvey and Stanley Trimble discuss the vast outpouring of academic research that is mostly redundant and wasteful. No......

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June 15, 2010

Science and Gender Equity, II

Glenn Ricketts

Today's New York Times features John Tierney's followup to his piece last week about attempts to legislate "gender equity," which he concludes will never work: a mixture of innate biological......

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June 14, 2010

2010 Spring Semester Highlights

Ashley Thorne

50 of our top articles this year.

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June 11, 2010

They Really, Really Don't Like Us

Glenn Ricketts

Possibly you’ve had the chance to read Peter Wood’s piece, Shut Up, They Explained. This was a response to the many ill-tempered, intemperate comments attached to the Chronicle of Higher......

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June 10, 2010

NAS President Speaks on Online Ed on My9 News

Ashley Thorne

Cross-posted from NAS.org NAS President Peter Wood appeared on New Jersey's My9 News on Wednesday along with Todd Zipper, co-founder of Test Drive College Online, in a segment on the pros a......

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June 10, 2010

How Dense are AAUW Members?

George Leef

The American Association of University Women Action Network is pushing for passage of an idiotic bit of federal meddling in the labor market, the Paycheck Fairness Act. We're told that this is "......

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