November 17, 2009
Sandra Stotsky has an excellent article in City Journal discussing how our education schools are failing to deliver on math education - because they have become over committed to some progressive id......
November 16, 2009
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) has published a guide to help administrators craft school policies in such a way as to protect First Amendment rights on campus. "Correcting......
November 16, 2009
A common fear about the accountability movement is that edu-babble such as “alignment,” “assessment,” and “best practices” will erect an authoritarian, standardiz......
November 16, 2009
The trustees of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), reports the Jerusalem Post, have unanimously voted against severing ties with Israeli universities, and no one rose to argu......
November 16, 2009
Climate change faith has been ruled a protected “philosophical belief” in the UK.
November 13, 2009
Don't miss this week's articles on NAS.org: Should Everyone Go? Ashley Thorne, Nov. 9 President Obama's goal - that by 2020 America would have the highest proportion of college graduates......
November 13, 2009
Via Campus Reform, I read an interesting post today on a blog called Hugo Schwyzer. The author, an anonymous "community college history and gender studies professor, animal rights activist and Episc......
November 13, 2009
The Chronicle Review recently ran a lively discussion on that question, featuring nine people with widely divergent views. In today's Pope Center piece, I comment on it and offer my own answers......
November 13, 2009
Barbara Bowen, the president of the Professional Staff Congress (PSC), the faculty union of the City University of New York (CUNY), circulated an e-mail asking union members to protest creatio......
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....
