December 31, 2012
Article: The Mind of Students
Will Fitzhugh
Students' minds are the main engines of academic work; we should try to learn what's going on inside them, argues Will Fitzhugh.
December 20, 2012
Article: Perspectives Unbound
Robert L. Jackson
Confronted with the Howard Zinn-ing of history, Mary Grabar writes, “The abandonment of objectivity is an acknowledgement that one is no longer teaching history.”
December 18, 2012
MTC: Howard Zinn in the College Classroom
Mary Grabar
The left cannot get enough of the late Howard Zinn. The radical professor's A People's History of the United States consistently holds a place in the top 15 of the 100 bestselling political books on A......
November 26, 2012
MTC: Should We Charge Different Fees for Different Majors?
Richard Vedder
In the first couple weeks of any survey course in the principles of economics, students are taught that prices are determined by the interactions of consumers (demand) and producers (supply). Prices f......
October 4, 2012
MTC: The Perils of Student Choice
Mark Bauerlein
The release of SAT scores last week gives strong ammunition to proponents of a core curriculum. As reported in the Wall Street Journal , reading scores hit their lowest figure in four decades. Writing......
September 26, 2012
MTC: Coping with 'Professional Students' in Community Colleges
Charlotte Allen
The party’s over for community college students in California, notorious for large numbers of young and not-so-young people using the low-cost system to drift in and out of classes, fill up t......
August 21, 2012
MTC: College Degrees Aren't Umbrellas
George Leef
Why go to college? Go back fifty years, and the answer commonly given was, "To become a well-rounded person who has a grasp of our civilization's history, science, and art." Go back about twenty-five......
July 20, 2012
MTC: Common Core Standards Can Save Us
J.M. Anderson
It's no secret that most high school graduates are unprepared for college. Every year, 1.7 million first-year college students are enrolled in remedial classes at a cost of about $3 billion an......