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March 4, 2026

Comment on Upcoming NAEP Civics Assessment Framework Update

National Association of Scholars

The National Assessment of Educational Progress's Civics Assessment Framework (NAEP-CAF) needs to be updated, above all to refocus upon essential civics knowledge and to remove alignments with pol......

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March 3, 2026

The Ayatollah’s Friends are on Your Campus

Kali Jerrard

The U.S. strike on Iran and the foreign funding shaping how universities respond to it.

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February 18, 2026

Invisible Networks? What the SAFE Research Act Reveals About US–China Academic Competition

Lilla Nora Kiss

The SAFE Research Act aimed to protect American research from Chinese exploitation. But it left open a critical vulnerability: a class of U.S. educational institutions that fall outside traditional re......

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February 17, 2026

Beyond Big Science: A Reform Agenda for American Science

Kali Jerrard

Scholars publish a comprehensive plan to rescue science from widespread corruption.

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February 13, 2026

Buy Local, Marry Local—College, Globalism, and Reversing Civilizational Decline

Teresa R. Manning

As technology untethers us from place and kin, mobility sells freedom yet often erodes roots, families, and culture.

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