March 21, 2011
Why are states allowed to use an 8% discount rate as compared to the private sector that uses a 5% discount rate?
March 21, 2011
Robert Weissberg talks about the factors, such as cognitive inability and American schools' emphasis on edutainment, that limit students' capacity to learn.
March 21, 2011
Educational special interest agents can be effective only if they focus on the actual academic work of our students, argues Will Fitzhugh.
March 18, 2011
Student journalists consider the 2012 presidential race, the need for greater tolerance on campus, how to fix the budget crisis and what to think of a former secretary of state.
March 17, 2011
Dr. Ken Marcus of the Institute for Jewish and Community Research sent me this link to a Scribd file copy of Tammi Rossman-Benjamin's 29 page letter of complaint date to the San Francisco Office......
March 17, 2011
So goes one of the standard explanations for the continual rise in the cost of going to college. In this Cato@Liberty post, Neal McCluskey tears it apart. Until recently, college and university lead......
March 17, 2011
So argues William Cohan in this NYT Opinionator blog post. He focuses on a number of highly successful people who made it without college credentials. This is the point of Peter Thiel's entrepre......
March 16, 2011
In this week’s Pope Center Clarion Call, Professor David Clemens discusses the general failure to teach college students critical thinking — despite the fact that many schools trum......
March 16, 2011
A press release by Lawrence Connell's lawyer states that Dean Ammons is ignoring the recommendations of the faculty committee to drop charges against Professor Connell.
March 16, 2011
Peter Wood elucidates the views of the NPR executive fired for his unguarded disparaging of conservatives as anti-intellectual.
October 29, 2024
Today’s Middle Eastern Studies Centers are facing a crisis due to the winds of change in the Middle East and their own ideological echo chamber....
November 19, 2024
NAS welcomes the nomination of Congressmen Lee Zeldin to lead the Environmental Protection Agency....
November 20, 2024
With McMahon, the new administration has a chance to drastically slim down and depoliticize the Education Department....
May 15, 2015
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....
October 12, 2010
What does it mean to be Latino? Are only Latin American people Latino, or does the term apply to anyone whose language derived from Latin?...
May 26, 2010
A sampling of arguments for the idea that college may not be for everyone....
