December 10, 2010
MTC: Do We Need More College Grads?
John Leo
Richard Vedder calls it "the single most scandalous statistic in higher education," an assessment that doesn't sound overstated to us. Writing on the Chronicle of Higher Education site, Vedder says "a......
October 14, 2010
Press Release: NAS Unearths Censored Study on High School Research Papers
Why aren't high schools doing a better job of teaching students to write? The suppressed study finds that 95% of high school teachers think research papers are important, but 62% never assign th......
October 14, 2010
Article: "It Messes Up My Fishing Time": Why American High School Teachers Don't Assign Research Papers
Peter Wood
NAS brings to light a long-suppressed research report on how American high school teachers avoid assigning research papers.
October 21, 2010
Article: Censored Study Unearthed - Why Teachers Don't Assign Research Papers
Ashley Thorne
The NAS has published a long-buried study on the state of the history research paper in American high schools. The 2002 study sponsored by The Concord Review (TCR) went unpublished when its benefact......
October 1, 2010
Article: Tuition Talks and a Voice of Reason at the SC Higher Education Summit
Christina Jeffrey
NAS board member Christina Jeffrey spoke on behalf of the NAS at the Summit. Here's her report on parents' and colleges' frustrations, the state governor's composure, and a bureaucra......
September 27, 2010
MTC: The Attack on Legacies
Stefan Kanfer
In every Marx Bros. movie, there occurs a moment when Harpo works himself up to a frenzy, hyperventilating, jumping up and down and crossing his eyes. These interludes never fail to beguile the viewer......
August 16, 2010
Academic Questions: Scoping Out the International Spy Museum
Ronald Radosh
This article by Ronald Radosh and the accompanying response from the International Spy Museum appeared in the fall 2010 issue of Academic Questions (vol. 23, no. 3).
September 2, 2010
MTC: The Underperformance Problem
Russell K. Nieli
On average black students do much worse on the SAT and many other standardized tests than whites. While encouraging progress was made in the 1970s and early 1980s in improving black SAT scores and re......
August 12, 2010
MTC: Is This Book Invisible?
Stefan Kanfer
By Stefan Kanfer In full-page newspaper ads, the Kindle displays the first page of an e-book. Its opening is famous: "I am an invisible man." Or is it famous anymore? How many high school seniors--......