March 25, 2010

Tune In Tonight: Peter Wood on Direct Lending

Ashley Thorne

NAS President Peter Wood will be on the radio this evening speaking about federal direct lending.

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March 24, 2010

The New K-12 Standards Debate

Peter Wood

Under pressure, 48 states have proposed common standards for grades K-12. Some of them are having second thoughts. What do you think?

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March 23, 2010

Should We Inflate Higher Ed? NAS Debates Kevin Carey

Ashley Thorne

Check out the debate that took place this month between Education Sector's Kevin Carey and NAS on the need for expanding higher education. First, Carey proposed a "Race to the Top" equivalent fo......

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March 23, 2010

RatemyProfessors and Student Customers

Glenn Ricketts

A newly released Kaplan survey seems to support what many instructors have already sensed about the widely popular site, Ratemyprofessors: students actively shop around for faculty members - they'......

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March 23, 2010

Collegiate Press Roundup

Glenn Ricketts

Articles of interest from student newspapers at colleges across the country.

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March 23, 2010

Fanfare on NAS Homepage

Ashley Thorne

NAS.org now greets readers with a festive fanfare; these are the opening bars of Gateways, the title piece of the 2001 album by composer Daniel Asia.

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March 23, 2010

Race Tracking

Ashley Thorne

UMass computer scientists design math tutoring software that matches students with digital coaches according to their race and ethnicity. What message does that send students?

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March 22, 2010

The Left, Pro-Educational Choice?

Candace de Russy

Now here's a novel insight: Greg Forster, a senior fellow at the Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice, in making the case that school vouchers deliver substantially more educational i......

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March 22, 2010

More on the Political Correctness Front at the UA

Daniel Asia

The Arizona Association of Scholars will be hosting a talk by Robert Maranto on “The Politically Correct University” (his most recent book) next week at the University of Arizona. I have......

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Ask a Scholar: What Is Structural-Functionalism, Conflict Theory and Symbolic Interactionism?

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