January 12, 2011

Education Schools and the Dumbing Down of the Teaching of Literature

George Leef

There's a strong trend toward assigning students books that are easy and fun, then giving them written assignments that don't call for serious analysis. 

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January 12, 2011

High School Research Papers and the New York Times

Ashley Thorne

An article on Will Fitzhugh and The Concord Review mischaracterizes the NAS but brings needed attention to the "dying art of the research paper."

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January 11, 2011

NAS Defends Freedom of Speech and Conscience in Ward v. Wilbanks

NAS filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the case Ward v. Wilbanks, in favor of counseling student Julea Ward, who was expelled from Eastern Michigan State University for expressing her religious co......

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January 11, 2011

Academic Questions Authors in New York Times Peer Review Debate

Ashley Thorne

Stanley Trimble, Bill McKelvey, and Mohamed Gad-el-Hak draw on their findings in a recent AQ essay to contribute to a "Room for Debate" discussion on the publication of controversial research.

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January 10, 2011

Nature-Deficit Disorder?

Ashley Thorne

A winter course, "Sustainability and Social Justice," at the University of Chicago, will explore "biophilia" and "ecopedagogy."

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January 7, 2011

Huckleberry Finn and Cultural Senstitivity

Glenn Ricketts

You may have read about the latest attempt to make a classic work acceptable to contemporary PC sensibilities, in this case a new edition of Huckleberry Finn from which racial epithets - certainly aut......

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January 7, 2011

Rich Vedder on the Overproduction of Advanced Degrees

George Leef

At The Chronicle's Innovations blog, Rich Vedder discusses the overproduction of advanced degrees in the U.S. 

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January 7, 2011

Where Did Those Mushy "No Labels" Ideas Come From?

George Leef

In this sharp essay, Mary Grabar links the intellectually mushy "No Labels" movement to academic fads that decried logic and debate as just bad male habits.

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January 7, 2011

Faculty Productivity

George Leef

In today's Pope Center piece, Duke Cheston writes about his findings regarding the UNC political science department. Have tenured faculty engaged in some successful "rent seeking" to reduce the......

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January 6, 2011

Duked Out

Glenn Ricketts

Duke history Professor Peter Wood, not to be confused with NAS's president of the same name. seems to use the classroom to malign the character of students, lacrosse players in particular. Never......

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