April 15, 2016

Safe Spaces or Free Speech? Intellectual Freedom and the Modern Campus

Peter Wood

NAS President Peter Wood discusses the tension between safe spaces and free speech, clarifying the importance of intellectual freedom. 

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April 15, 2016

Wood Speaks on Chicago's Morning Answer Radio Show

National Association of Scholars

Peter Wood spoke about campus protesters on Chicago's Morning Answer radio show.

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April 8, 2016

Christina Hoff Sommers to Debate on Pay Gap

National Association of Scholars

Sommers will participate in a debate with two Stanford professors on Equal Pay Day. 

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April 8, 2016

The Great California Accreditation War

National Association of Scholars

NAS Director of Communications David Randall writes about the accreditation struggle in California.

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April 8, 2016

Stanford Students: Offering Western Civilization Classes Destroys Diversity

Rachelle Peterson

A pro-Western civilization petition at Stanford was met with stiff resistance.

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April 7, 2016

Peter Wood: "The Common Core Is Dead"

Peter Wood

Do Common Core State Standards make sense to you? How do they affect you and your children? NAS President Peter Wood gets to the core of the matter. 

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April 5, 2016

Title IX Tramples Free Speech and Fairness, So Now What?

Peter Wood

NAS president Peter Wood comments on the AAUP statement: The History, Uses, and Abuses of Title IX.

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April 4, 2016

Ashley Thorne Defends the Need to Challenge Students

National Association of Scholars

Thorne responds to a critique of her essay in the Chronicle of Higher Education.

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April 1, 2016

Peter Wood to Speak on Common Core State Standards at The Heartland Institute

National Association of Scholars

Wood's book, Drilling Through the Core, examines how Common Core State Standards have affected curriculums and whether they are even legal.

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April 1, 2016

School Choice: Fig Leaf of the Pro-Common Core Right

Sandra Stotsky

Charters, choice, and decentralization cannot solve the problem.

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