March 22, 2011

Ask a Scholar: Who Pays for America's Health Care?

King Banaian

How much of health care in the United States is funded by the government?

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March 22, 2011

Video: Berkeley Physics Professor Lectures on Climategate...No Comment

Ashley Thorne

Richard Muller: "You're not allowed to do this in science. This is not up to our standards."

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March 22, 2011

Encyclopedia of Sustainability, 5th Edition

Ashley Thorne

A 5th edition of the NAS 'sustainapedia' of the key names, terms, books, colleges, and organizations in the campus sustainability movement.

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March 21, 2011

The Vacancy in the Heart of Higher Education

Peter Wood

At the Chronicle of Higher Education's Innovations blog, NAS president Peter Wood shares some insights about what has been lost in higher education: I refer to the slow disappearance of the se......

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March 21, 2011

Ask a Scholar: State Discount Rates

King Banaian

Why are states allowed to use an 8% discount rate as compared to the private sector that uses a 5% discount rate?

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March 21, 2011

Video: Robert Weissberg on Limits to Learning

Robert Weissberg talks about the factors, such as cognitive inability and American schools' emphasis on edutainment, that limit students' capacity to learn.

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March 21, 2011

Nomenclatura

Will Fitzhugh

Educational special interest agents can be effective only if they focus on the actual academic work of our students, argues Will Fitzhugh.

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March 18, 2011

Collegiate Press Roundup

Glenn Ricketts

Student journalists consider the 2012 presidential race, the need for greater tolerance on campus, how to fix the budget crisis and what to think of a former secretary of state.

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March 17, 2011

Systemic Anti-Semitism at UCSC

Mitchell Langbert

Dr. Ken Marcus of the Institute for Jewish and Community Research sent me this link to a Scribd file copy of Tammi Rossman-Benjamin's 29 page letter of complaint date to the San Francisco Office......

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March 17, 2011

College Costs More Because States are Defunding It

George Leef

So goes one of the standard explanations for the continual rise in the cost of going to college. In this Cato@Liberty post, Neal McCluskey tears it apart. Until recently, college and university lead......

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In Memoriam: David Horowitz

We celebrate and remember the life of David Horowitz, a champion of intellectual freedom and truth-telling during a long era of lies, collective self-deception, and institutional malfea......