January 23, 2015
Academic Questions contributor David Kaiser writes for TIME Magazine on why the movie Selma is historically inaccurate.
January 23, 2015
Rachelle Peterson warns against several dangers of MOOCs, which include the possibility of data mining and privacy infringement.
January 22, 2015
At two upcoming conferences, NAS president Peter Wood will speak on the Common Core State Standards, and executive director Ashley Thorne will speak on freshman summer reading programs. ......
January 20, 2015
NAS president and anthropologist Peter Wood observes the American Anthropological Association masking the truth to promote an ideological agenda.
January 14, 2015
George Leef reviews Versions of Academic Freedom and argues that there does not have to be a single, one-size-fits-all approach to academic freedom.
January 14, 2015
John C. Chalberg finds the APUSH standards for the Post-Civil War era deceptively simple.
January 13, 2015
Across the country, parents and citizens who are opposed to the Common Core State Standards have used Facebook to organize by state.
January 12, 2015
NAS board member Sandra Stotsky writes about the failures of the Common Core State Standards to prepare students for truly college-level reading and thinking.
January 12, 2015
Robert L. Paquette describes his encounter with AP history at the high school level.
May 7, 2024
The mobs desecrating the American flag, smashing windows, chanting genocidal slogans—this always was the end game of the advocates of the right to protest, action civics, student activ......
March 9, 2024
Claireve Grandjouan, when I knew her, was Head of the Classics Department at Hunter College, and that year gave a three-hour Friday evening class in Egyptian archaeology....
April 20, 2024
By all means, pursue your noble dream of improving the condition of humanity through your research and teaching. Could I do it all again, I would, but I would do things very differently....
May 15, 2015
A look at the double standard that has arisen regarding racism, illustrated recently by the reaction to a black professor's biased comments on Twitter....
October 12, 2010
What does it mean to be Latino? Are only Latin American people Latino, or does the term apply to anyone whose language derived from Latin?...
September 21, 2010
A reader asks, "If Elohim refers to multiple 'gods,' then Yhwh Elohim really means Lord of Gods...the one of many, right?" A Hebrew expert answers....
