January 6, 2010
Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has spoken about the mediocrity of most education schools and says he is committed to improving them. I'm skeptical. I don't think he really understands wh......
January 6, 2010
Last fall I convened a panel on Great Books for the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics. One panelist, Joshua Cohen, Assistant Professor of Literature at the Massachusetts College of&......
January 6, 2010
When Quincy Wagstaff (Groucho Marx) takes over as the new president of Huxley College in the Horse Feathers, he complains that the administration had allowed “education to interfere with footb......
January 6, 2010
Florida Gulf Coast University centers its curriculum on sustainability and the UN document the Earth Charter.
January 4, 2010
If we don't somehow manage to wrest the public schools from the clutches of the left, it will bring us all down. A recent example of its insanity is the approval of a proposal (scheduled&nb......
January 4, 2010
The American Thinker's Tom Lifson has a great new essay on Berkeley High School's proposal to eliminate science labs because they are "mostly for white people." [Query: are......
January 4, 2010
Check out this Minding the Campus article by Matt Shaffer, a senior at Yale who is "Yearning for Great Books."
January 3, 2010
Several years ago, I chuckled when I dropped my young daughter off at a friend's elementary school. In fact, the school was named an "Attendance Center." I never learned why "school" was suddenl......
December 31, 2009
As we head into the New Year, we look back on 30 of our most memorable articles this fall semester.
December 30, 2009
By Adrienne Carlson It may come as a surprise to you, especially if you’ve always believed that online education is inferior to the traditional kind – there are certain careers where an......
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....
June 5, 2024
Ohio Northern University gnaws its teeth with an appetite for vindictive lawfare....
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?...
