October 13, 2020
Statement: ED and DOS Issue Urgent Warning About Chinese Influence in American Schools
National Association of Scholars
NAS commends the Education and State Depts. for issuing two joint letters urging American education leaders to investigate possible Chinese government influence in their schools.
September 30, 2020
Academic Questions: Responses Past and Present
Jonathan Chaves
"How have we lost our courage, O my Muse! / The daily headlines surely must confuse / The reader who’s aware of how men acted / In history when not by fear distracted."
September 30, 2020
Academic Questions: Why Trump?
David Randall
A review of The Age of Entitlement: America Since the 1960s, Christopher Caldwell, Simon and Schuster, 2020, pp. 352, $17.39 hardcover.
July 30, 2020
Article: In Defense of Unbiased History Education
Jay Bergman
An open letter from NAS Board Member Jay Bergman to the superintendent of Newington schools on the dangers of 1619 Project-inspired history curricula in K-12 education.
June 25, 2020
Press Release: The National Endowment for the Humanities Awards CARES Act Grant to NAS
National Association of Scholars
The grant, part of the $40.3 million allocated to the NEH as part of the CARES Act, will enable NAS to survey four of the most popular history books used to teach America’s children and create a......
July 16, 2020
Article: The Effects of Proposition 209 on California
Charles Geshekter David Randall
This study, originally published in 2008 and updated in 2020, examines the effects of Proposition 209 on racial and gender diversity in California higher education over a 20 year span.
July 7, 2020
Article: Curing Higher Ed in the Wake of COVID-19
Adam Ellwanger
The current model of higher education is utterly dysfunctional. COVID-19 has given us an unprecedented opportunity to make it work again.
July 2, 2020
Academic Questions: Goat-Killing in the Humanities
Stanley K. Ridgley
"Business history is too important to be left to the historians," argues Ridgley in his review of "Nothing Succeeds like Failure: The Sad History of American Business Schools" by Steve......
July 2, 2020
Academic Questions: “Racist and Proud”: The Awful Legacy of Ta-Nehisi Coates
Mark Zunac
Ta-Nehisi Coates received a MacArthur Fellowship for “[i]nterpreting complex and challenging issues around race and racism through . . . nuanced historical analysis.” But nuance......
May 11, 2020
Article: Engineers and K-12
Harry J. Levinson
The declining number of American-born scientists and engineers begins with a failure in primary and secondary school STEM education.