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January 6, 2010

Earth Charter U

Ashley Thorne

Check out my article at NAS.org on Florida Gulf Coast University and its love affair with the Earth Charter, a United Nations sustainability document.

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January 6, 2010

Law Schools are Losing Their Effectiveness

George Leef

So argues Suffolk University Law School professor Charles Rounds in this piece the Pope Center released Monday. The problem is that the old law school core curriculum is going the way of the undergr......

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January 6, 2010

Can Arne Duncan make our Ed Schools Good?

George Leef

Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has spoken about the mediocrity of most education schools and says he is committed to improving them. I'm skeptical. I don't think he really understands wh......

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January 6, 2010

Intergenerational Learning

David Clemens

Last fall I convened a panel on Great Books for the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics.  One panelist, Joshua Cohen, Assistant Professor of Literature at the Massachusetts College of&......

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January 6, 2010

On Letting Education Interfere with Football

robkoons

When Quincy Wagstaff (Groucho Marx) takes over as the new president of Huxley College in the Horse Feathers, he complains that the administration had allowed “education to interfere with footb......

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