March 25, 2010

Madonna Constantine, Plagiarist Professor, Loses Lawsuit

Ashley Thorne

Madonna Constantine has lost her lawsuit against Columbia, reports the Washington Monthly. The University had investigated the Teachers College professor and found her guilty of plagiarism on multiple......

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March 25, 2010

Tunnel of Oppression: Communist Theme Park

Jonathan Bean

On college campuses, the "student programmers" could use with a bit of anger management. On my campus there is the obligatory Vagina Monologues sticking to the script of the "angry vaginas" and other......

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March 25, 2010

Tune In Tonight: Peter Wood on Direct Lending

Ashley Thorne

NAS President Peter Wood will be on the radio this evening speaking about federal direct lending.

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March 24, 2010

The New K-12 Standards Debate

Peter Wood

Under pressure, 48 states have proposed common standards for grades K-12. Some of them are having second thoughts. What do you think?

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March 23, 2010

Should We Inflate Higher Ed? NAS Debates Kevin Carey

Ashley Thorne

Check out the debate that took place this month between Education Sector's Kevin Carey and NAS on the need for expanding higher education. First, Carey proposed a "Race to the Top" equivalent fo......

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March 23, 2010

RatemyProfessors and Student Customers

Glenn Ricketts

A newly released Kaplan survey seems to support what many instructors have already sensed about the widely popular site, Ratemyprofessors: students actively shop around for faculty members - they'......

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March 23, 2010

Collegiate Press Roundup

Glenn Ricketts

Articles of interest from student newspapers at colleges across the country.

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March 23, 2010

Fanfare on NAS Homepage

Ashley Thorne

NAS.org now greets readers with a festive fanfare; these are the opening bars of Gateways, the title piece of the 2001 album by composer Daniel Asia.

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March 23, 2010

Race Tracking

Ashley Thorne

UMass computer scientists design math tutoring software that matches students with digital coaches according to their race and ethnicity. What message does that send students?

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