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March 30, 2010

Get NAS Email Alerts!

Ashley Thorne

Want to keep up with NAS but don't have time to go to our website every day? Sign up for email updates! We have a newly installed box at the top left corner of all pages of our website that says......

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March 30, 2010

Peter Wood Radio Interview on Federal Direct Lending

Ashley Thorne

Cross posted from NAS.org NAS President Peter Wood appeared on the University Talk radio program to speak about federal direct lending as included in the reconciliation bill. He talked about ho......

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March 30, 2010

Debate: Common Core Standards in K-12?

Ashley Thorne

Under pressure, 48 states have proposed common standards for grades K-12. Some of them are having second thoughts. Chester Finn says the standards should be taken seriously because they’re int......

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March 30, 2010

John Ellis Makes a Case for Intellectual Diversity

Ashley Thorne

"A lack of intellectual diversity hurts both left and right," contended John Ellis in a statement last week to the Joint Committee on the Master Plan for Higher Education of the California Legislatu......

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March 30, 2010

Roger Clegg: 6 Things to Say to Challenge "Diversity" Hiring

Ashley Thorne

For those readers who serve on faculty hiring committees, Roger Clegg, president of the Center for Equal Opportunity, offers strategies for speaking up when the committee begins to talk about "diver......

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