April 5, 2010

Why We Are Where We Are

Candace de Russy

Fr. Dwight Longenecker’s blog, Standing on My Head -- new to me -- is a find: wise, deep and funny. In “Stupidity and Tyranny,” recently posted and headlined by Winfield Myers......

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April 5, 2010

Stay...Just a Little Bit Longer

David Clemens

1:00 p.m.  While students wander in, I fire up my iPhone for some “bumper music.”  Jackson Browne croons “Stay” but Devin asks, “Who did the original?" &ldquo......

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April 5, 2010

Intellectual Takeout: Would You Like an Education with Your Degree?

Ashley Thorne

NAS welcomes the emergence of Intellectual Takeout, a one-stop-shop of resources for all those interested in learning about freedom.

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April 5, 2010

Ratatat, Sissy, Bay State Boom: Obama Whacks K-12 Standards

Peter Wood

Critics say Race to the Top and the Common Core State Standards Initiative will make K-12 education worse.

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April 1, 2010

What About Political and Intellectual Oppression?

Ashley Thorne

Last week, Jonathan Bean wrote about tunnels of oppression on campus. Here's a firsthand account of one such tunnel by Marc Seelinger, a conservative student at UNC-Chapel Hill. He writes: Wal......

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April 1, 2010

Low Attendance, Inattentiveness, Good Grades

Glenn Ricketts

There's a post at Powerline by Paul Miringoff about a curious amalgam of frequent absence, lackadaisical classroom conduct and terrific grades earned by Dartmouth students, as described by his o......

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April 1, 2010

Is Our Children Learning?

Peter Wood

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.

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April 1, 2010

Update: Top Ten Books for College Students...Still No Comment

Glenn Ricketts

Top reading on campus today includes Nightlight, a parody of the bestseller Twilight by Harvard satirists, and Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea.

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March 31, 2010

Academic Freedom is Not Tied to Tenure

Ashley Thorne

Today Peter Wood posted an article explaining how academic freedom should be a privilege for anyone who is committed to the search for truth through rational inquiry and dispassionate and scrupulous......

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March 31, 2010

New Pope Center Paper Sheds Light on Student "Accommodations"

George Leef

Last week, the Pope Center released its latest paper, in which author Melana Zyla Vickers investigated the shadowy world of mandatory student accommodations for those who have (or at least have docu......

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