October 14, 2010

A Canadian Columnist Sees Through the College Hype

George Leef

David Warren writes for The Ottawa Citizen and has a firm grasp on the reality of higher education. Consider this column published Oct. 12. Is higher education a great, crucial investment in human c......

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October 14, 2010

NAS Unearths Censored Study on High School Research Papers

Why aren't high schools doing a better job of teaching students to write? The suppressed study finds that 95% of high school teachers think research papers are important, but 62% never assign th......

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October 14, 2010

"It Messes Up My Fishing Time": Why American High School Teachers Don't Assign Research Papers

Peter Wood

NAS brings to light a long-suppressed research report on how American high school teachers avoid assigning research papers.

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October 14, 2010

Collegiate Press Roundup 10-14-10

Glenn Ricketts

Student writers argue for more campus-wide involvement in supporting diversity, suggest how to dress for Halloween and propose the abolition of faculty tenure.

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October 13, 2010

Manhattan Institute's "Capitalism on Campus" Conference

George Leef

In this week's Pope Center Clarion Call, I write about the "Capitalism on Campus" conference sponsored by the Manhattan Institute. It was a first-rate event that brought together scholars to dis......

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October 13, 2010

Inflammatory Books on Kindle? Reigniting the Written Word

David Clemens

What do we stand to lose if all our books are digital?

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October 12, 2010

From Diversity to Sustainability: How Campus Ideology is Born

Peter Wood

Sustainability, like diversity, subtracts from the better purposes of higher education.

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October 12, 2010

Ask a Scholar: What is the True Definition of Latino?

Dario Fernandez-Morera

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?

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October 12, 2010

Academic Retrenchment and Political Strategies in New York

Publius

A call to readers to contact New York's gubernatorial candidates about the massive cuts to foreign language at SUNY Albany.

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October 11, 2010

Sometimes They're Right, But Don't Call Them Scholars!

George Leef

That seems to be the dismissive approach of The New York Times when it turns out that a professor who favors the free market and opposes crony capitalism is proven to be right. Professor Jonathan Be......

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