November 1, 2013
Academic Questions: Restoring a More Productive College Curriculum
Chuck Stetson
Chuck Stetson outlines a plan for preparing college students for success in work and in life.
October 15, 2013
MTC: The Test Score Solution
Mark Bauerlein
When 2013 SAT scores came out last month and showed no significant change from 2012,many educators may have felt not disappointed or neutral, but relieved. That's because the overall trend since 2006......
August 1, 2013
MTC: Sequestration Hits History and Civics
Mark Bauerlein
One of the best tools for gauging the historical knowledge and civic awareness of young Americans is the exam administered to 12th Graders by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) in......
June 12, 2013
MTC: How College Turned Me Into an Indian
John S. Rosenberg
Articles touting "diversity" often tell us more than they intend to, frequently by casual comments off the main topic or by what is not said at all. Three articles from the past few days provide good......
May 15, 2013
MTC: Looking for Class Preferences to Replace Racial Ones
John S. Rosenberg
Socioeconomic preferences can be a better proxy for race than race preferences, according to an Inside Higher Ed report this morning on a new study to be published this summer in the Harvard Law &am......
April 16, 2013
Academic Questions: The Common Core State Standards: Two Views
Mark Bauerlein
Jane Robbins describes the defects in the Common Core State Standards for English and math; Mark Bauerlein responds, seeing opportunity rather than disaster.
April 18, 2013
MTC: Are High School Grads Well-prepared for College?....Well...(Cough)
Mark Bauerlein
One of the purposes of Common Core, the initiative to draft new standards for math and English, was to align secondary curricula with the demands of college. The presumption was that high school......