January 18, 2017

NAS Affiliate Oregon Association of Scholars Launches New Website

National Association of Scholars

The Oregon chapter of the National Association of Scholars has provided resources for members at OregonScholars.org. 

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January 18, 2017

Stanley Fish Opposes Politicized “New Civics”

National Association of Scholars

Professor Stanley Fish offers his thoughts on our report Making Citizens.

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January 11, 2017

New York Post and Others Highlight NAS Report

National Association of Scholars

NAS has analyzed the masquerading of political activism as a civics education in our report Making Citizens: How American Universities Teach Civics, garnering media attention.

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January 10, 2017

Radical Activists Hijack Civics Education, Study Finds

National Association of Scholars

PRESS RELEASE: A new study, Making Citizens, documents how activists have taken over the term "civic learning" and turned it into a way to raise up a new generation of protesters. 

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January 10, 2017

Making Citizens: How American Universities Teach Civics

National Association of Scholars

An in-depth report on how civics is taught around the United States.

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January 9, 2017

Executive Summary - Making Citizens Report

David Randall

A new movement in American higher education aims to transform the teaching of civics. This report is a study of what that movement is, where it came from, and why Americans should be concerned.

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January 4, 2017

Modern Versus Western Thought: Thinking From The Founding

William H. Young

William Young examines the Constitution's origins in the Western philosophical tradition.

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January 3, 2017

Seven Types of Suppression

National Association of Scholars

NAS president Peter Wood writes on free speech and censorship in The New Criterion. 

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December 30, 2016

NAS's Top Ten Articles of 2016

National Association of Scholars

Join us as we review the year by recognizing what you read most. These are the top ten articles on NAS.org in 2016.

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December 28, 2016

Wasted Colleges: The New Civics in Colorado - 1/12/17 in Denver, CO

National Association of Scholars

Join us in Denver, CO on Thursday, January 12, for an evening event celebrating the release of our new report Making Citizens: How American Universities Teach Civics. 

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