February 23, 2009

Mathematical Deceptions

Peter Wood

A University of Illinois-Chicago professor of math education reminisces about his efforts to radicalize eighth-grade math students.

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February 19, 2009

Panel 3: The Military and Academe

Video: At our 2009 national conference we held a panel to discuss the relationship between the military and higher education. General Josiah Bunting chaired the panel, which included speakers Edward......

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February 19, 2009

More Researchers Try to Measure Diversity's Effects

Ashley Thorne

They find that grouping students by race deepens a sense of victimization.

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February 19, 2009

Canada Gets It Right

Ashley Thorne

Queen's College terminated its Intergroup Dialogue program when it was found to invite conversation-policing.

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February 18, 2009

The Academy Ovoids

Peter Wood

We’re accepting nominations for the worst excesses in higher education.

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February 18, 2009

Globalizing Higher Education in the Liberal Arts

Tom Wood

Liberal arts education has been under attack recently in the U.S. as meaningless and irrelevant, but it is gaining a foothold in other countries.

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February 18, 2009

A New Way to Keep Up With NAS: RSS Feed

Ashley Thorne

Stay fed - subscribe to our articles!

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February 18, 2009

Bias Isn't Bias If It's Ours

Peter Wood

For instance, according to Barbara Applebaum, it's appropriate to teach for social justice "under conditions of systemic injustice."

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February 17, 2009

Hookup Ink

Wendy Shalit

This preview article, which appeared in the "Liberal Education and the Family" issue of Academic Questions (volume 22, number 1), is a review of three books on the campus hookup culture.

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Ohio Northern University gnaws its teeth with an appetite for vindictive lawfare....

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Biden Admin Is Weaponizing Title IX To Promote Fringe Sexual Politics

Earlier this month, the Office for Civil Rights in the Biden Education Department issued a new regulation on how schools must observe Title IX. This rule transf......

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Where Did We Get the Idea That Only White People Can Be Racist?

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....

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Ask a Scholar: Declining the Second Term

Has there ever been a president who did not run for a second term by choice?...

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Ask a Scholar: What is the True Definition of Latino?

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?...