March 8, 2023
Article: Letter: Comments on Draft Tennessee Social Studies Standards
Peter WoodDavid Randall
Tennessee's draft Social Studies Standards provides a solid basis for social studies instruction.
March 11, 2023
MTC: Get a Vision. Get Off Your Cellphone. Get to Work.
Gregory J. Rummo
“I think that you appreciate that there are extraordinary men and women and extraordinary moments when history leaps forward on the backs of these individuals, that what can be imagined can be achieve......
March 7, 2023
MTC: In the Face of Indoctrination: Fight, Not Flight
Wenyuan Wu
“The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.” – Abraham Lincoln By the time an American kid graduates from high school, to what extent has he......
December 9, 2022
MTC: Colleges Helped Cause the Enrollment Crash
Alexander Riley
There is considerable talk these days about the enrollment crash in higher education, especially in liberal-arts education. The Chronicle of Higher Education has been expressing worry about this crisi......
October 24, 2022
Academic Questions: The Human Intelligence Debate
Richard P. Phelps
A review of "In the Know: Debunking 35 Myths about Human Intelligence," by Russell T. Warne, Cambridge University Press, 2020, pp. 418, $99 hardcover, $25.99 paperback, $21 e-book.
October 24, 2022
Academic Questions: The Invention of Foreign Language “Learning Disability”
Richard L. Sparks
Research on “Foreign Language” disability offers strong evidence that the growth in the “learning disability” diagnosis owes more to its usefulness in masking educational under......
September 29, 2022
Article: Open Letter Urging Kentucky to Further Revise Its Social Studies Standards
National Association of Scholars
A group of Kentucky citizens has sent an open letter to the Commissioner of the Kentucky Department of Education stating their support of the recommendations in the NAS/Civics Alliance lette......
October 1, 2022
MTC: Professorship Application Rewards Hostility to ‘Western Scientific Ways of Knowing’
Hans Bader
If you are hostile to “western scientific ways of knowing,” such as objectivity and the scientific method, that will help you get a job in the Critical Race and Ethnic Studies Department at the Univer......
September 2, 2022
MTC: Higher Ed Discovers the Joys of Sex
Robert Weissberg
Colleges and universities were once bare-bones places. Dorm rooms had all the charm of a Motel 6 and school-run cafeterias were comparable to those in high school. Recreation was, maybe, a TV room and......
August 19, 2022
Article: Diversity Statements, State Standards, and More Harry Trumans
John D. Sailer
From cutting-edge reports to model legislation, the Civics Alliance continues to produce work that demonstrates the need for civics education reform in America.