January 28, 2015

The Muslim Call to Prayer at Duke

Peter Wood

NAS president Peter Wood evaluates Duke University's short-lived and ill-considered decision to broadcast the Muslim adhan every Friday on campus.

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January 23, 2015

APUSH, Not Common Core, Threatens Concept of American Exceptionalism

Kevin T. Brady

Kevin T. Brady finds the APUSH standards a far greater problem than Common Core.

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January 23, 2015

AQ Contributor Writes for TIME Magazine on Distortion of History in "Selma"

Madison Iszler

Academic Questions contributor David Kaiser writes for TIME Magazine on why the movie Selma is historically inaccurate.

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January 23, 2015

How MOOCs Threaten Your Privacy

Rachelle Peterson

Rachelle Peterson warns against several dangers of MOOCs, which include the possibility of data mining and privacy infringement.

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January 22, 2015

NAS Leaders Speaking at Upcoming Conferences

At two upcoming conferences, NAS president Peter Wood will speak on the Common Core State Standards, and executive director Ashley Thorne will speak on freshman summer reading programs. ......

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January 20, 2015

Ferguson and the Decline in Anthropology

Peter Wood

NAS president and anthropologist Peter Wood observes the American Anthropological Association masking the truth to promote an ideological agenda.

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January 15, 2015

Harry V. Jaffa, 1918-2015

Allen C. Guelzo

A remembrance of political philosophy scholar Harry Jaffa.

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January 14, 2015

Stanley Fish's New Book on Academic Freedom

George Leef

George Leef reviews Versions of Academic Freedom and argues that there does not have to be a single, one-size-fits-all approach to academic freedom.

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January 14, 2015

APUSH Post-Civil War Coverage: History Lite

John C. Chalberg

John C. Chalberg finds the APUSH standards for the Post-Civil War era deceptively simple.

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January 13, 2015

Opposing Common Core, State by State

National Association of Scholars

Across the country, parents and citizens who are opposed to the Common Core State Standards have used Facebook to organize by state.

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