January 4, 2012

MTC: A Test Where 'Good" Means 'Terrible'

J.M. Anderson

As a dean at a rural community college in Illinois, I recently served as a judge for a history fair for seventh and eighth graders at a local school--an assignment that involved a real surprise. When......

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September 13, 2011

MTC: Why Don't Progressives Support U.S. History for Freshmen?

Mark Bauerlein

Herb London and KC Johnson have already posted on the disappointing findings of the ACTA project What Will They Learn? But it is worth pondering some of the implications of the report.  One of t......

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October 3, 2011

MTC: The Cupcake War as a Religious Event

Robert Weissberg

By now the "Cupcake War" in which the Berkeley College Republicans sold cupcakes with different prices for various ethnic/racial/gender groups is well known. Drawing less attention is why it produced......

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June 20, 2011

MTC: Lower Tuition for Illegals Safe for Now

Glynn Custred

Possibly because it is saving its fire for review of the Arizona immigration law, the Supreme Court has passed up a chance to rule on the legality of lower in-state college tuition for illegal immigra......

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May 19, 2011

MTC: Why College Still Matters

Peter Sacks

A growing chorus of critics says a college education is finished as the ticket to economic success and a middle-class life. The economy of the future, these critics suggest, actually requires far fe......

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