April 15, 2010

Re: Bologna Process

Ashley Thorne

George Leef highlighted his Pope Center article analyzing the Bologna Process, an effort to standardize European higher education requirements and make it easier for students to transfer to universi......

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April 15, 2010

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David Clemens

The shape of satire is circular; what a satire mocks can never be shown as improving because satire’s aim is to expose, ridicule, and thereby correct, similar folly in reality.  Nothing cha......

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April 15, 2010

Best-Educated vs. Most-Educated

Ashley Thorne

Clarifying President Obama's 2020 higher ed goal - sending more students to college won’t make the United States the best-educated nation.

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April 14, 2010

Is "The Bologna Process" Just a Lot of...?

George Leef

In this week's Clarion Call, I write about the recent book The Challenge of Bologna, which argues that the European higher education reform process poses a serious challenge that the US needs to......

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April 14, 2010

Unions Coddle New York's Academics

Candace de Russy

Forget that taxpayers are being crushed by reckless government spending. Forget, for example in New York State, that they are being ground under by  a $9.2 billion budget deficit for the newly......

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April 13, 2010

Former NAS Board Member Quoted in WSJ on Katyn Forest Massacre

Ashley Thorne

Adam Scrupski, a former board member of the NAS, is quoted in today's Wall Street Journal in the article "The Fog Over Katyn Forest" by Bret Stephens. Stephens quotes a blog post by Scrupsk......

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April 13, 2010

Ask a Scholar: Critical Discourse Analysis

Dario Fernandez-Morera

What does it mean to study literature and culture through Critical Discourse Analysis? Do you have any references of Latin-American authors that develop their work using this approach?

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April 12, 2010

Sustainability Report

Ashley Thorne

NAS had a quite a sustainability week; most notably, we got word that Stanford was voting on a proposal to make sustainability education a requirement for graduation. We wrote to the Committee on Unde......

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April 9, 2010

The Radical Roots of Campus Protests

Ashley Thorne

Fighting tuition increases is the innocent face of radical activism on campus. While the mainstream media reports that students are meekly rallying over the cost of college, Jay Schalin shows the da......

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April 9, 2010

Oh the Things You Can Learn at a Teacher Conference!

George Leef

In today's Pope Center piece, Mary Grabar writes about her experience at a teacher conference in Georgia. Such conferences are not about mundane pedagogical matters like how best to teach arithm......

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