December 2, 2009

Privatize State Fine Arts Education

George Leef

North Carolina is one of three states with a government-run fine arts education institution. The UNC School of the Arts was created back in 1965 by politicians who thought it would be a good thing t......

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December 2, 2009

New York and CUNY Association of Scholars NYC Event December 13

Ashley Thorne

Via Professor David Gordon, president of NAS's New York affiliate, an announcement specifically for NAS members: THE NEW YORK ASSOCIATION OF SCHOLARS THE CUNY ASSOCIATION OF SCHOLARS  ......

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December 2, 2009

Fear of Profiling Trumps Fear of Assault on Campus

Ashley Thorne

An anonymous reader commenting on the NAS.org article "National Security Threatened by Devotion to Diversity" recently reported: The diversity doctrine not only harms the quality of higher educati......

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December 2, 2009

Signing on to FEAR

Peter Wood

NAS endorses the AAUP statement "Free Expression at Risk, at Yale and Elsewhere."

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December 1, 2009

What to Do About Centers for Social Justice

Peter Wood

Last week an NAS member, a professor at the University of Southern Indiana we'll call Professor Smith, brought to our attention a new “Center for Social Justice” at the university. H......

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December 1, 2009

Top 10 Books for College Students...No Comment

Ashley Thorne

Popular campus reads today include Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters and World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War.

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December 1, 2009

Fish Tales: Teaching Stanley How to Read

Peter Wood

Stanley Fish misrepresents Peter Wood on "intellectual diversity."

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November 30, 2009

Climategate, Totalitarian?

Candace de Russy

Is the fraud likely perpetrated by climate scientists rooted in totalitarianism - the drive to gain power over our countries, economies, and liberties? James Lewis makes this case at PJM which, as y......

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November 30, 2009

An Example of Educational Entrepreneurship

George Leef

In this week's Pope Center Clarion Call, Professor Tim Mosteller writes about his efforts at establishing a new college that will focus on great books and liberal learning. I'm wholeheartedl......

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November 30, 2009

Race to the Bottom?

Candace de Russy

Education reformers have generally been giving President Obama’s K-12 agenda, with its touted openness to charter schools and teacher assessment based on student performance, the benefit of th......

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