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June 18, 2024

Press Release: The Franklin Standards

National Association of Scholars

NAS and FIE want to inspire America’s state education departments to provide science standards that teach American students to claim their country’s scientific and technological heritage a......

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June 18, 2024

Join the Franklin Standards Coalition

National Association of Scholars

Add your name to our petition to stay up to date as we call on states and school districts to adopt new science standards based upon the Franklin Standards. 

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June 17, 2024

VIDEO: Rescuing Science

National Association of Scholars

Listen in on part of the Rescuing Science symposium, as Scott Turner analyzes the network of perverse incentives that have been built into academic science since lavish government......

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June 15, 2024

Letter to a Young Professor

Loretta Graziano Breuning

Being “non-judgmental” was the highest virtue when I became a professor in the 1980s. How can you be non-judgmental while grading hundreds of papers?

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June 15, 2024

The Threat of Literature qua Literature and the Death of Greatness

Mark Zunac

The impetus for my foray into curriculum building was little more than a desire to make literature old again. Culturally, we knew we were facing headwinds when it came to literature’s appeal to......

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