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July 7, 2011

Bottling Up Global Warming Skepticism

Peter Wood

Science Magazine reports that a computer scientist is going on the offensive against global warming skeptics.

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July 6, 2011

US History and Public Knowledge: Bad, Getting Worse

Glenn Ricketts

As I wrote recently here, knowledge of American history is increasingly unfamiliar to Americans at all levels of the educational process, from K-12 to graduates of top-tier colleges and universities......

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July 6, 2011

Prescient

George Leef

"The widespread use of high school diplomas and college degrees as employment screening devices by employers has led to a belief that increasing education will increase opportunities, and/or that th......

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July 6, 2011

Scraping the Bottom of the Barrel for Students

George Leef

In this week's Pope Center Clarion Call, I write about the new book In the Basement of the Ivory Tower by "Professor X." He's an adjunct who teaches English at two lower-tier schools and the......

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July 6, 2011

Video: Higher Education an Anti-Thrift Institution?

Peter Wood raises the issue of universities' bad stewardship at a recent event in New York.

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