July 1, 2010

Boys, Girls and Geniuses

Glenn Ricketts

Our friend Christina Sommers has frequently piqued the wrath of academic feminists by arguing that public education, far from favoring boys as legend has it, is loaded heavily against them and in fa......

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July 1, 2010

Saudis Still Fund Hateful Textbooks

Candace de Russy

Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah just paid a visit to President Obama, almost  two years after the deadline by which the kingdom’s educational curriculum was to have been over......

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July 1, 2010

Another Fox News Segment on NAS Freshman Summer Reading Study

Steve Doocy and Tucker Carlson discuss NAS's "Beach Books" study on Fox and Friends (VIDEO).

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July 1, 2010

Dangers of Credentialing the College Degree: A Real-Life Example

Jason Fertig

An email exchange between a student and a professor illustrates the popular idea that students are entitled to get a passing grade - even if they don't earn one.

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June 30, 2010

Do Higher Education "Investments" Boost the Economy?

George Leef

In this week's Pope Center Clarion Call, Jay Schalin takes a look at the conventional wisdom that a sure-fire way for states or countries to boost their economies is by putting more resources in......

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June 30, 2010

Collegiate Press Roundup 6-30-2010

Glenn Ricketts

College students write about the Texas governor’s contest, the high cost of Dartmouth’s Sophomore Summer program, the awkward aspects of returning to your parents’ abode during sum......

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June 29, 2010

Diversity: The Expanded Version

Glenn Ricketts

You may have thought - or wished - that American colleges and universities had finally exhausted the outer reaches of "diversity" on their campuses. Really, there's simply GOT to be a finite lim......

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June 29, 2010

Evaluate This

Peter Cohee

A seasoned public school teacher concludes: teacher evaluations as they are don't make teachers better, don't get rid of bad teachers, aren't needed by good teachers, and don't improve......

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June 28, 2010

Sustainability News 6-28-2010

Ashley Thorne

This week’s news includes students sending hair clippings to help plug the oil spill; the reinventing of Biosphere 2; a new generation of sustainability graduates; how apocalyptic predictions ca......

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June 25, 2010

Does the Faculty Lounge Rule?

Candace de Russy

The incomparable Victor Davis Hanson thinks so, evincing evidence that ethnic centers have the run of our institutions, and economics and political science departments determine policy. And so&......

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