April 5, 2020

Article: Coronavirus and High School History

David Randall

What does COVID-19 have to do with high school history class? As it turns out, quite a lot.

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July 1, 1996

Report: SUNY's Core Curricula

Empire Foundation for Policy Research and New York Association of Scholars

This survey of the core curricula at sixteen State University of New York campuses finds that students can avoid essential academic subjects while still meeting their degree requirements. This has led......

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May 2, 2025

Article: Comment: Oklahoma Adopts New Science and Social Studies Standards

National Association of Scholars

Oklahoma adopts new standards informed by NAS, Civics Alliance, and Freedom in Education model standards.

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April 14, 2025

Academic Questions: Becoming an American Politologist

Alfred G. Cuzán

After escaping the Castro regime in Cuba via Mexico as a child, Alfred G. Cuzán came to the United States and started on his academic career path in political science. Looking back now, Cuzá......

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April 14, 2025

Academic Questions: The Making of a Poet

Donald T. Williams

Author and professor Donald T. Williams reminds us that a good poet needs four things: a good eye, a good ear, a good mind, and a good heart.

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April 14, 2025

Academic Questions: A Glimpse of Columbia Past

Stewart Justman

A Columbia University alumnus reminisces about his education at this vaunted institution and laments that today the professoriate has abandoned the nonprescriptive instruction he received—“......

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April 14, 2025

MTC: What Should Students Read by the Time They Graduate?

Peter Wood

This essay has two parts. First, it offers a collective portrait of the people who work for the National Association of Scholars (NAS) through the lens of the books they think other people should read......

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February 20, 2025

MTC: A Review of "Don't Go To College"

Kris Larsen

It is easy to assume that the authors of Don't Go To College: A Case For Revolution (2022) would be anti-intellectuals who never darkened a university's doors and are jealous of anyone who did. Ah, bu......

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January 29, 2025

MTC: Lowering the Bar Isn’t Equity—All Students Deserve High Standards

Xavier-Laurent Salvador

Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published by the Observatory of University Ethics on March 22, 2022. It was translated into English from French by the Observatory before being ed......

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