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......
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......
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.
April 19, 2020
Article: No More Merit
Christopher Kendall
Fred Hess proposes that higher education switch all admissions processes to a random lottery. While the idea is unique, it is likely to create more problems than it solves.
March 9, 2020
Article: On Faculty Union Bans
Peter Wood
South Dakota has just become the fourth state to ban faculty unions at public universities, joining Texas, Virginia, and Wisconsin.
January 2, 2020
Academic Questions: College Admissions Ride the Equality Roundabout
John Staddon
America’s institutions of higher education face an intractable problem: excellence and equality—the two principles college admissions offices are ostensibly committed to—are mutually......
November 6, 2019
Article: The Results Are In: Common Core is An All-Around Failure
David Randall
The National Assessment of Educational Progress has seen a steady decline in performance by students educated with Common Core standards. NAS Director of Research David Randall provides context for th......
September 9, 2019
Academic Questions: Grove City College Plays Yale: Academic Values in the Trump Era
Donald M. Hassler
A personal reflection contrasting an education at Grove City with that of Yale.