December 1, 2009

What to Do About Centers for Social Justice

Peter Wood

Last week an NAS member, a professor at the University of Southern Indiana we'll call Professor Smith, brought to our attention a new “Center for Social Justice” at the university. H......

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December 1, 2009

Top 10 Books for College Students...No Comment

Ashley Thorne

Popular campus reads today include Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters and World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War.

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December 1, 2009

Fish Tales: Teaching Stanley How to Read

Peter Wood

Stanley Fish misrepresents Peter Wood on "intellectual diversity."

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November 30, 2009

Climategate, Totalitarian?

Candace de Russy

Is the fraud likely perpetrated by climate scientists rooted in totalitarianism - the drive to gain power over our countries, economies, and liberties? James Lewis makes this case at PJM which, as y......

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November 30, 2009

An Example of Educational Entrepreneurship

George Leef

In this week's Pope Center Clarion Call, Professor Tim Mosteller writes about his efforts at establishing a new college that will focus on great books and liberal learning. I'm wholeheartedl......

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November 30, 2009

Race to the Bottom?

Candace de Russy

Education reformers have generally been giving President Obama’s K-12 agenda, with its touted openness to charter schools and teacher assessment based on student performance, the benefit of th......

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November 30, 2009

Diversi-Oaths: Creedal Admissions in the American University

Peter Wood

"Diversity" essays in college applications teach students how to bow to an anti-intellectual idol. At Berkeley, the bow is becoming for would-be grad students a full-scale grovel.

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November 24, 2009

Scientists Turned Political Propagandists

Candace de Russy

I've noted that financial gain surely figured in the motivation of the scientists who appear to have conspired to suppress climate data. But of course there is also this possible motiv......

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November 24, 2009

They Blinded Us With Science

Ashley Thorne

This is a guest article from Alex Berezow, a Ph.D. candidate in microbiology at the University of Washington. The opinions expressed therein do not necessarily reflect the official position of......

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November 24, 2009

Mandatory Re-education for MN Teacher-Candidates?

Michael Krauss

Here's a nice discussion of a proposal from the University of Minnesota's College of Education that aspiring teachers there must repudiate the notion of "the American Dream" in order to obta......

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The idea has caught on that the radical left overplayed its hand in DEI and is now vulnerable to those of us who seek major reforms. This is not, however, the first time that the a......

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All signs show that American education is beginning a long and painful divorce with the People’s Republic of China. But will academia go through with it?...

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University of Washington Violated Non-Discrimination Policy, Internal Report Finds

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

Professor Jonathan Imber clarifies concepts of sociologocal theory....