November 4, 2009
A charming blog on our blogroll, Quiddity - created by the Center for Independent Research on Classical Education (CiRCE) - has an excellent post on the beauty of formally-taught grammar.......
November 4, 2009
Thomas Thibeault, a professor of English at East Georgia College, was escorted from campus by police and suspended from teaching two days after he criticized the school's sexual harassment polic......
November 4, 2009
During the recent election season I met two Republicans who told me about instances of Ulster County, NY public school teachers' using schools to ideologically brainwash children. In......
November 4, 2009
This article by John B. Parrott on the ideas and contemporary influence of Berkeley professor George Lakoff appeared in the "Academic Revisionism" issue of Academic Questions (vol. 22, no. 4).
November 3, 2009
Today's Inside Higher Ed has a piece on a new book lauding "affirmative action" (that is to say, selective racial preferences). My good friend Roger Clegg of the Center for Equal Opportunity, a......
November 3, 2009
An initiative spawned of the outcomes assessment movement, Liberal Education & America's Promise (LEAP), sounds boring enough. But what is really going on when the lords of of education go a-L......
November 2, 2009
NAS president Peter Wood has a bit in The American Conservative's special books issue (subscription required), under The Best Books You Haven't Read. There he extols the "small, ea......
November 2, 2009
A reader commenting on my post "Teaching Can Be Dangerous" wrote: Speaking of politicization, I have a friend who is applying to a PhD program at Berkeley. He sent me the “personal hist......
November 2, 2009
My Pope Center colleague Jay Schalin writes here about the difficulties that very small colleges face, but also their prospects for success at filling a niche in the vast educational marketplace.
October 30, 2009
The American Council of Trustees and Alumni has released a report card on public higher education in the state of Illinois. According to the ACTA press release: The report card, entitled For the P......
February 13, 2024
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?...
January 24, 2024
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......
February 2, 2024
The most immediate work of conservatives must be the rejection of tribalism and a refocus on the individual—individual character, industry, and aptitude....
May 15, 2015
A look at the double standard that has arisen regarding racism, illustrated recently by the reaction to a black professor's biased comments on Twitter....
October 12, 2010
What does it mean to be Latino? Are only Latin American people Latino, or does the term apply to anyone whose language derived from Latin?...
September 21, 2010
A reader asks, "If Elohim refers to multiple 'gods,' then Yhwh Elohim really means Lord of Gods...the one of many, right?" A Hebrew expert answers....
