June 14, 2010
MTC: The Wolfers Dig a Deeper Hole
KC Johnson
Inside Higher Ed took a look at the controversy over the "Crying Wolf" project, in which a committee consisting mostly of academics will pay for works of "scholarly integrity" dealing with contemporar......
June 21, 2010
MTC: Why U.S. Men's Soccer Will Now Decline
Charlotte Allen
The U.S. soccer team surprised most viewers by tying its first-round World Cup game with soccer-powerhouse England 1-1---and then tied Slovenia 2-2 in a match that many said the Americans should have......
May 12, 2010
Academic Questions: Free Online 'Sustainability' Academic Questions Articles
Ashley Thorne
Cross posted from NAS.org We are pleased to announce that the current issue of Academic Questions, a special issue on “Sustainability,” is available FREE online! To read it,&nb......
May 7, 2010
Academic Questions: Free Sustainability Academic Questions Issue
National Association of Scholars
Hot off the press: the current issue of Academic Questions, a special issue on "Sustainability,” is available free online.
April 16, 2010
MTC: "Feelings" Education---It Starts in Ed School
Andrew Quinio
The teenage girl standing with her father in line behind me at Kroger was clearly annoyed with her teacher. "I just gave her some b.s.," she said. They were discussing the school day, and a writin......
April 8, 2010
MTC: On Pigeons, Pells and Student Incentives
Jackson Toby
Jackson Toby, professor emeritus of sociology at Rutgers and author of the new book, The Lowering of Higher Education in America, delivered this speech yesterday (April 7) at a luncheon in New York C......
March 29, 2010
MTC: What Future for English Lit?
Mark Bauerlein
Many critical observers of humanities education believe that various left-leaning trends such as multiculturalism and cultural relativism become stronger the higher you rise on the education ladder.......