August 1, 2013
MTC: Sequestration Hits History and Civics
Mark Bauerlein
One of the best tools for gauging the historical knowledge and civic awareness of young Americans is the exam administered to 12th Graders by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) in......
June 12, 2013
MTC: How College Turned Me Into an Indian
John S. Rosenberg
Articles touting "diversity" often tell us more than they intend to, frequently by casual comments off the main topic or by what is not said at all. Three articles from the past few days provide good......
May 15, 2013
MTC: Looking for Class Preferences to Replace Racial Ones
John S. Rosenberg
Socioeconomic preferences can be a better proxy for race than race preferences, according to an Inside Higher Ed report this morning on a new study to be published this summer in the Harvard Law &am......
May 9, 2013
MTC: Average Tuition Discount for Freshman: 45%
Peter Sacks
The higher-education story of the week is about cost: colleges and universities are cutting prices. At least that's the impression one gets from media coverage of the annual report from the National......
April 5, 2013
Article: American History Bill Aims for a More Inclusive Curriculum
Thomas K. Lindsay
Thomas Lindsay offers a defense of the Texas American History Bill.
April 16, 2013
Academic Questions: The Common Core State Standards: Two Views
Mark Bauerlein
Jane Robbins describes the defects in the Common Core State Standards for English and math; Mark Bauerlein responds, seeing opportunity rather than disaster.
April 18, 2013
MTC: Are High School Grads Well-prepared for College?....Well...(Cough)
Mark Bauerlein
One of the purposes of Common Core, the initiative to draft new standards for math and English, was to align secondary curricula with the demands of college. The presumption was that high school......
February 7, 2013
Academic Questions: One Hundred Great Ideas for Higher Education
Richard Arum, Jill Biden, Andrew Delbanco, Joseph Epstein, Victor Davis Hanson, Wilfred McClay, Charles Murray, Ibn Warraq, Tom Wolfe, and many others share their ideas for reforming higher education.......