June 24, 2010

Ashley Thorne on FOX News

Ashley Thorne

Today NAS director of communications spoke about the "Beach Books" study on freshman summer reading.

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June 24, 2010

Domestic Faction in a Republic, Part II

George Seaver

Renaissance and Enlightenment authors, as well as the U.S. founding fathers, saw the need to control factions in order to preserve the life of the republic.

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June 23, 2010

Hooked

Glenn Ricketts

Steven Rhoads, NAS member and Political Science professor at the University of Virginia, writes [along with co-authors Laura Webber and Diana Van Fleet]at the Chronicle of Higher Education about the......

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June 23, 2010

Dispatch from the Tenure Wars

David Clemens

Writing in the Wall Street Journal (June 18), Timothy Knowles, “a former teacher, principal and district leader” laments the difficulty of eliminating “low-performing teachers.”......

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June 23, 2010

Domestic Faction in a Republic, Part I

George Seaver

Postmodern ideology, with its roots in higher education, is the source of poisonous faction in the United States today, writes George Seaver. But in the ancient Greek republics, factions were often be......

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June 23, 2010

Collegiate Press Roundup 6-23-2010

Glenn Ricketts

Student columnists take a look at the Obama administration’s education policies, the threat to free speech posed by self-censorship, and the futility of banning smoking everywhere on campus.

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June 22, 2010

California Scholars Fighting for Prop. 209

Ashley Thorne

Proposition 209, the law prohibiting racial preferences at public universities in California, is under attack. Last week the California Association of Scholars (CAS), an affiliate of NAS, filed......

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June 22, 2010

Ed in the Air

Ashley Thorne

In the movie Up in the Air, George Clooney's character works for a company that sends him around the country to fire people. To save the company money on airfare, hotels, and rental cars, Cloone......

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June 22, 2010

New Excellent Program: Master's Degree in Liberty Studies

Ashley Thorne

Check out our catalog of excellent programs as we add the master's degree in liberty studies at U Illinois-Springfield.

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June 21, 2010

A Modest Proposal for Campus Safety

David Clemens

Since the NAS report on summer reading, “Beach Books,” U.C. Berkeley has announced its own summer reading recommendations.   The theme is “Education Matters” a......

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