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April 5, 2010

Ratatat, Sissy, Bay State Boom: Obama Whacks K-12 Standards

Peter Wood

Critics say Race to the Top and the Common Core State Standards Initiative will make K-12 education worse.

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April 1, 2010

Is Our Children Learning?

Peter Wood

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.

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April 1, 2010

Update: Top Ten Books for College Students...Still No Comment

Glenn Ricketts

Top reading on campus today includes Nightlight, a parody of the bestseller Twilight by Harvard satirists, and Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea.

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March 31, 2010

Administrators and Academic Freedom

Peter Wood

Anyone who is committed to the search for truth through rational inquiry and dispassionate and scrupulous use of evidence deserves the protection of academic freedom.

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March 30, 2010

10 Campus Sustainability News Stories

Ashley Thorne

Colleges create new sustainability programs and requirements, ASU publishes a student journal, universities participated in WWF's Earth Hour, and the sustainability generation comes of age.

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