April 7, 2010

NAS Welcomes Intellectual Takeout

Ashley Thorne

Check out NAS's review of the online one-stop shop Intellectual Takeout! Have you or a student you know ever experienced a situation like one of these? You’re in class and the profess......

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April 7, 2010

De-Growth Conference...No Comment

Ashley Thorne

Participants at a meeting in Vancouver will look for ways to shrink the economy in the name of sustainability.

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April 7, 2010

Ark of Hope for the Earth Charter...No Comment

Ashley Thorne

The UN sustainability manifesto endorsed by many U.S. colleges and universities has its own 200-pound "ark" for transportation.

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April 7, 2010

Back to the Future: The New Campus Radicals

Jay Schalin

Fighting tuition increases is the innocent face of radical activism on campus. Recent protests led by college students have been rallies to transform civil society according to redistributive principl......

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April 6, 2010

Why Aren't More Women STEM'in?

Ashley Thorne

Last week I published "Bias, Barriers, or Biology" in response to the AAUW's March report Why So Few? on why fewer women than men pursue careers in science, technology, engineering, and ma......

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April 6, 2010

The Politics of Professors - Again

Glenn Ricketts

There's a piece at yesterday's Inside Higher Education which examines some new research on the ideological orientation of the professoriate. The authors of the study, Neil Gross and his Univ......

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April 6, 2010

Earth Day Soon to Dawn

Candace de Russy

On April 22, as Nancy Kennon alerts us at Family Security Matters,  students young and older will be guided in discussions or activities about protecting the environment. Parents, young adults......

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April 6, 2010

All Wired Up: Six Questions Technology in the Classroom Raises

Jessica Custer

Does using technology in the classroom advance or hinder the academic pursuit of truth?

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April 5, 2010

Ravitch Book Review by Peter Wood

Ashley Thorne

NAS president Peter Wood has published a review of Diane Ravitch's new book, The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education. The book ou......

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April 5, 2010

Race to the Bottom in MA

Candace de Russy

Massachusetts, where education reformers spent years creating strong academic-content-based standards and high-stakes testing for students and teachers, got zilch in the first round of the O......

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