November 24, 2009

The APA Discriminates

Ashley Thorne

The APA intended to end one form of discrimination, but they have begun another.

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November 24, 2009

National Security Threatened by Devotion to Diversity

Ashley Thorne

We know the diversity doctrine harms the quality of higher education, but did you know that it threatens our national security?

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November 24, 2009

Happy Thanksgiving!

Peter Wood

A New Jersey school teacher says there is "no conclusive evidence that the first Thanksgiving happened."

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November 23, 2009

Tolerance and Terrorism at Queens College

Mitchell Langbert

Jeff Wiesenfeld, trustee of the City University of New York, has written a letter to the New York Post concerning an alleged terrorist's appearing as a speaker at Queens College (h/t Sharad Kark......

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November 23, 2009

Dispositions Back in the News

King Banaian

Katherine Kersten brings back an old topic on this blog: dispositions theory in education. There's a new design of teacher education at the University of Minnesota, she says: The initiative is......

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November 23, 2009

SLO Challenge Goes to PERB

David Clemens

The November-December issue of CCA Advocate contains a front page story on how Lassen Community College is challenging Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs) with the California Public Employmen......

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November 23, 2009

Climate Conspiracy: U.K., U.S. "ClimateGates"

Jonathan Bean

My friends at NAS.org have posted on the “Climate Conspiracy” that broke when hackers revealed global warming scientists had apparently manipulated data, organized attacks on skeptics, a......

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November 23, 2009

WaPo Story on Job Market for Recent Grads

Ken Daniszewski

In case you missed it, there was a remarkable story by Eli Saslow in yesterday's Washington Post about the terrible job market facing recent college grads. Saslow's article illustrates the p......

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November 23, 2009

The Global Warming Debate, Peer Review and University Science

Mitchell Langbert

Dr. Tim Ball has written an article in the November 21 Canada Free Press in which he calls leading climatologists "frauds."  He bases this  on computer-based information obtained by someon......

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November 23, 2009

The Spirit That Makes a College

Ken Daniszewski

Given the problems facing higher education today, this speech on the purpose of college delivered by Justice Wendell Phillips Stafford at the Sesqui-Centennial of Dartmouth College in 1919 seems as......

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