April 7, 2010
Participants at a meeting in Vancouver will look for ways to shrink the economy in the name of sustainability.
April 7, 2010
The UN sustainability manifesto endorsed by many U.S. colleges and universities has its own 200-pound "ark" for transportation.
April 7, 2010
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......
April 6, 2010
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......
April 6, 2010
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......
April 6, 2010
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......
April 6, 2010
Does using technology in the classroom advance or hinder the academic pursuit of truth?
April 5, 2010
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......
April 5, 2010
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......
April 5, 2010
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......
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....
