April 7, 2016

Peter Wood: "The Common Core Is Dead"

Peter Wood

Do Common Core State Standards make sense to you? How do they affect you and your children? NAS President Peter Wood gets to the core of the matter. 

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April 5, 2016

Title IX Tramples Free Speech and Fairness, So Now What?

Peter Wood

NAS president Peter Wood comments on the AAUP statement: The History, Uses, and Abuses of Title IX.

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April 4, 2016

Ashley Thorne Defends the Need to Challenge Students

National Association of Scholars

Thorne responds to a critique of her essay in the Chronicle of Higher Education.

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April 1, 2016

Peter Wood to Speak on Common Core State Standards at The Heartland Institute

National Association of Scholars

Wood's book, Drilling Through the Core, examines how Common Core State Standards have affected curriculums and whether they are even legal.

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April 1, 2016

School Choice: Fig Leaf of the Pro-Common Core Right

Sandra Stotsky

Charters, choice, and decentralization cannot solve the problem.

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April 1, 2016

The Character of Student Activism

Zachary R. Wood

Student activists would do well to consider the weaknesses that have hindered their moral crusade for social justice.

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March 30, 2016

The Drive to Put Western Civ Back in the College Curriculum

Ashley Thorne

Ashley Thorne writes for the New York Post about some Stanford students' push for a Western civilization course.

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March 28, 2016

Western Civilization Isn’t Dead Yet

Editors-in-Chief of the Stanford Review, 2013-16

The Editors-in-Chief of the Stanford Review write on the lack of a proper foundation at Stanford University.

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March 24, 2016

Affirmative Action at the University of Louisville: A Case Study

Ben Foster

An examination of the application of seldom-scrutinized affirmative action policies in one university.

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July 30, 2024

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Don’t Cry for Them, Academia

The dark secret of anti-Semitism is that ignorance alone cannot explain it away or absolve those who adhere to it. If anything, the most vivid episodes of history’s anti-Semitism have......

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Professor Alleges "Widespread" Discriminatory Hiring Coverup at University of Washington

Audio acquired by the National Association of Scholars describes allegations of coverup race-based hiring coverup at the University of Washington...

June 20, 2024

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Remembering Warren Winiarski

Peter Wood writes on the passing of Warren Winiarski, a long-time supporter and friend of the National Association of Scholars, who sought to cultivate civilization and the liberal arts......

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May 15, 2015

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Where Did We Get the Idea That Only White People Can Be Racist?

A look at the double standard that has arisen regarding racism, illustrated recently by the reaction to a black professor's biased comments on Twitter....

September 6, 2024

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Professor Alleges "Widespread" Discriminatory Hiring Coverup at University of Washington

Audio acquired by the National Association of Scholars describes allegations of coverup race-based hiring coverup at the University of Washington...

September 18, 2024

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DEI vs. Academic Integrity at University of Washington

FOIA requests found evidence of racial discrimination at the University of Washington. A professor now accuses the University of a cover-up. A leading scholar of "whiteness" is accus......