March 10, 2009
At our national conference in January 2009, NAS presented awards to outstanding individuals who contributed to the defense of academic freedom, intellectual culture, and education reform. This year......
March 10, 2009
Science, Victimology, Grrr, Includer-in-Chief, Liberal Ed on the Brink, Lessons
March 10, 2009
In the second of this three-part series, Tom Wood connects Thorndike's theory (that all training is specific to the task at hand, and that there is no transfer of learning from one practice or f......
March 9, 2009
The NAS applauds the Chronicle of Higher Education's awakening to the systematic "mistakes" of American colleges and universities.
March 7, 2009
Hell comes to Princeton to discuss campus identity politics, the sustainability movement, and Obama's everyone-goes-to-college plan.
March 6, 2009
Lesboprof weighs in, Churchill and Ayers, new social justice core, Barbie turns 50, and articles of the day
March 5, 2009
Briefly noted: Social change vs. the classics, manliness, suggested articles, P2O defined, and expanding sustainability models.
March 5, 2009
In the concluding part of this four-part series, Tom Wood examines a paradox at the heart of intelligence testing.
March 4, 2009
A new dictionary of educational lingo misses the latest fad: "21st century skills."
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?...
