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April 23, 2010

Finishing a Recent Article

Daniel Asia

I have recently finished an article for a future Academic Questions on the difficult place in which Classical Music finds itself in the Academy. I also suggest that the problem is a symptomatic of a......

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April 23, 2010

The Saga of Barbaric Paul Robeson HS

Candace de Russy

A teen went public about her failing high school -- a sick, sick place in Brooklyn where students have sex and smoke dope in the stairwells, where pregnancies and smoking pot are the stuff of e......

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April 23, 2010

"Why Professors Are Liberal": Explanation or Apologia?

Steve Balch

New research seeks to show why so few conservatives choose an academic profession. NAS Chairman Steve Balch weighs the evidence.

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April 22, 2010

A Response to CSU Chico's Diversity Strategy

Ashley Thorne

California State University at Chico’s president, Paul Zingg, has just circulated a draft “diversity action plan for 2010-2015” titled To Form a More Inclusive Learning C......

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April 22, 2010

What Does Sustainability Have to Do with Social Justice?

Peter Wood

In honor of Earth Day, Peter Wood examines the sustainability movement's Bookchin-born theory that "everything is connected to everything else." An excerpt: What about that idea that that huma......

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