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.
July 1, 1996
Report: SUNY's Core Curricula
Empire Foundation for Policy ResearchNew 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......
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.
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......
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.
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—“......
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......
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......
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......