December 22, 2014

Academic Freedom in a Time of Silencing

Ashley Thorne

Today academic freedom is an embattled principle as campus guardians of political correctness wield the power to hush discussion of subjects they don't like. 

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December 17, 2014

Winter 2014 Academic Questions Features Special Section, "God and Guns"

National Association of Scholars

The special section of the winter 2014 Academic Questions highlights campus attitudes toward guns and religion.

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December 17, 2014

The Ongoing Madness in Madison

George Leef

The University of Wisconsin, Madison recruits many academically weak students to make the campus more diverse, but the open admission standards erode the university's academic integrity.

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December 17, 2014

APUSH: Tempest in a Teapot?

Jonathan Bean

Jonathan Bean isn't terribly upset about the new APUSH course.

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December 16, 2014

Video Coverage of Common Core Debate at St. Francis College

National Association of Scholars

St. Francis College recently hosted a debate on the Common Core between NAS President Peter Wood and Manhattan Institute Senior Fellow Sol Stern. Video coverage of the full event is availabl......

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December 16, 2014

How Data-Mining Hurts Higher Education

Peter Wood

The promises of data-mining in higher education are that we will end up with more students achieving degrees at lower cost, but the soft totalitarianism that will be required to achieve these gains is......

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December 15, 2014

Academic Social Science and the Family

William H. Young

William Young examines the negative effects of social science on the traditional family.

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December 10, 2014

APUSH and the American Founding: Concepts Supplant History

Joseph F. Kett

University of Virginia historian Joseph Kett finds the APUSH course unteachable.

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December 5, 2014

After the Interregnum

Patrick J. Deneen

In "God's and Guns," a special section of the Winter 2014 Academic Questions, Patrick J. Deneen finds that both sides in the latest stage of the Culture Wars "represent a betrayal of t......

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December 3, 2014

Sugar White Snow and Evergreens: New Children's Book by AQ Editor

National Association of Scholars

Just in time for the holiday season, Felicia Chernesky, the managing editor of Academic Questions, has released the children's book Sugar White Snow and Evergreens: A Winter Wonderland of Color.

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