January 6, 2010
Check out my article at NAS.org on Florida Gulf Coast University and its love affair with the Earth Charter, a United Nations sustainability document.
January 6, 2010
So argues Suffolk University Law School professor Charles Rounds in this piece the Pope Center released Monday. The problem is that the old law school core curriculum is going the way of the undergr......
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......
October 29, 2024
Today’s Middle Eastern Studies Centers are facing a crisis due to the winds of change in the Middle East and their own ideological echo chamber....
November 19, 2024
NAS welcomes the nomination of Congressmen Lee Zeldin to lead the Environmental Protection Agency....
November 20, 2024
With McMahon, the new administration has a chance to drastically slim down and depoliticize the Education Department....
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?...
May 26, 2010
A sampling of arguments for the idea that college may not be for everyone....
