April 5, 2010

Ravitch Book Review by Peter Wood

Ashley Thorne

NAS president Peter Wood has published 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. The book ou......

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April 5, 2010

Race to the Bottom in MA

Candace de Russy

Massachusetts, where education reformers spent years creating strong academic-content-based standards and high-stakes testing for students and teachers, got zilch in the first round of the O......

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April 5, 2010

Why We Are Where We Are

Candace de Russy

Fr. Dwight Longenecker’s blog, Standing on My Head -- new to me -- is a find: wise, deep and funny. In “Stupidity and Tyranny,” recently posted and headlined by Winfield Myers......

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April 5, 2010

Stay...Just a Little Bit Longer

David Clemens

1:00 p.m.  While students wander in, I fire up my iPhone for some “bumper music.”  Jackson Browne croons “Stay” but Devin asks, “Who did the original?" &ldquo......

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April 5, 2010

Intellectual Takeout: Would You Like an Education with Your Degree?

Ashley Thorne

NAS welcomes the emergence of Intellectual Takeout, a one-stop-shop of resources for all those interested in learning about freedom.

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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

What About Political and Intellectual Oppression?

Ashley Thorne

Last week, Jonathan Bean wrote about tunnels of oppression on campus. Here's a firsthand account of one such tunnel by Marc Seelinger, a conservative student at UNC-Chapel Hill. He writes: Wal......

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April 1, 2010

Low Attendance, Inattentiveness, Good Grades

Glenn Ricketts

There's a post at Powerline by Paul Miringoff about a curious amalgam of frequent absence, lackadaisical classroom conduct and terrific grades earned by Dartmouth students, as described by his o......

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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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