June 2, 2022

Video: Civics Education Reform in the States

National Association of Scholars

The charge for civics education reform is being led in campaigns throughout the states. Listen as we talk with citizens leading reform efforts in Missouri, Minnesota, and Idaho.

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June 2, 2022

NAS Urges States to Abandon the Common Core

National Association of Scholars

After twelve years, it is clear that the Common Core is a failed experiment. The time has come to call this venture to a close.

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June 2, 2022

What Good Is Tenure?

Peter Wood

NAS President Peter Wood discusses the history of tenure and considers what may be done to reform this embattled institution for the sake of academic freedom.

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May 31, 2022

Arizona: A Civics Education Desert

Marina Ziemnick

"Educating for Citizenship: The Arizona Case Study" serves as a word of caution to reformers who seek to appease both sides in the battle over American education.

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May 31, 2022

Can America’s Colleges and Universities Be Saved?

David Randall

We urge American citizens and policymakers to reform our higher education system while there is still time.

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May 27, 2022

NAS Offers Recommendations to Further Improve Colorado's Social Studies Standards

National Association of Scholars

While better than the first draft, Colorado's latest draft social studies standards can still be substantially improved. 

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May 26, 2022

Press Release: Report Finds Arizona Universities Ignore Board of Regents' Intent, Grow DEI Bureaucracy

National Association of Scholars

Instead of ensuring a robust civic education, Arizona’s universities prioritize an ever-growing number of classes rooted in critical theory.

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May 25, 2022

NAS Statement on Princeton's Firing of Professor Joshua Katz

National Association of Scholars

The unceremonious firing of Professor Katz reveals the level to which university administrators will stoop to enforce ideological conformity on campus.

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May 25, 2022

The Climate Emergency, the Public Voice, and Nuclear Energy

William H. Young

Neither a turn to the past nor higher education’s present environmentalist fantasies are likely to provide the expansion of safe, cost-effective nuclear energy that the nation needs and desires.

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May 24, 2022

The Sweet Taste of Justice

Marina Ziemnick

Dr. Charles Negy's reinstatement shows that universities can still be held accountable for persecuting professors who speak out against the progressive orthodoxy. 

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Exclusive Documents: UC-Boulder Breaks Civil Rights Law to Advance Racial Preferences

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Ask a Scholar: What is the True Definition of Latino?

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?...