January 4, 2010

The Sheer Racism of 'White' Science

Candace de Russy

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......

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January 4, 2010

Berkeley's Unbearable Whiteness of Science

Michael Krauss

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......

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January 4, 2010

Recommended Student Article

Ashley Thorne

Check out this Minding the Campus article by Matt Shaffer, a senior at Yale who is "Yearning for Great Books." 

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January 3, 2010

Entitlement U.S.A.: Colleges as Attendance Centers

Jonathan Bean

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......

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December 31, 2009

Highlights from NAS's 2009 Fall Semester

Ashley Thorne

As we head into the New Year, we look back on 30 of our most memorable articles this fall semester.

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December 30, 2009

The Best Careers Through Online Education

Ashley Thorne

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......

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December 29, 2009

Muppet Yoda or ‘Toon Yoda?

David Clemens

For 30 years, I have used Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now in conjunction with Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness to illustrate allusion, ambiguity, irony, anxiety of influence, medi......

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December 29, 2009

Marxists in Schools of Education Respond to NAS Article

Ashley Thorne

Crosspost from www.NAS.org Two weeks ago I published an article about a Marxist journal that has seized authority in the education world. The Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies......

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December 29, 2009

Che Lives?

Ashley Thorne

An NAS article on a Marxist journal for educators seems to have secured the attention of some of the last remaining Marxists on earth.

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December 28, 2009

WSJ Review of Jackson Toby's Book

George Leef

The Wall Street Journal ran a review of Professor Jackson Toby's book The Lowering of Higher Education in its December 23 edition. The reviewer, Ben Wildavsky, unfortunately buys into the standa......

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