May 8, 2012

Two Kinds of Critical Thinking

AILACT

A reply by the board of a scholarly organization to Peter Wood’s Comments on “Critical Thinking.”

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May 7, 2012

Ask a Scholar: Declining the Second Term

Has there ever been a president who did not run for a second term by choice?

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May 4, 2012

"Teaching as a Subversive Activity": The Theory of Political Indoctrination

Zombie

Teachers have a "moral imperative" to shape students' beliefs and make them "agents for change," declared a lanugage professor at a recent Berkeley lecture.

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May 4, 2012

Ruminations at the end of the semester

Daniel Asia

I have recently returned from a trip abroad.  In receiving my peanuts, pretzels and drink during the flight, I also received two napkins.

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May 4, 2012

Where the Job Growth Will Be

George Leef

Most of the job openings in the labor market in the next decade won't require college education.

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May 3, 2012

College Is a Drain

Ashley Thorne

This week brought a shower of pronouncements about how college is squandering American resources. 

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May 3, 2012

Capitalism and Western Civilization: Community Colleges

William H. Young

William Young examines the role of Community Colleges in American higher education.

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May 2, 2012

UCLA: Still Obsessed with Diversity

Peter Wood

The College of Letters and Science at the University of California-Los Angeles will soon vote on whether to add a required general education course called "Community and Conflict" - which simply tur......

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May 1, 2012

How to Be Succinct

Peter Wood

Peter Wood suggests ways to keep it short.

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April 30, 2012

Fang Lizhi, 1991 Sidney Hook Award Recipient

Glenn Ricketts

NAS mourns the passing of an intrepid advocate of free inquiry and democracy.

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Bad Faith Noncompliance: Virginia Schools Flout Supreme Court and Trump with DEI ‘Rebrand’

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