Accuracy in Academia will host a complimentary dinner discussion regarding affordable college tuition rates with Richard Vedder, author of Going Broke by Degree: Why College Costs Too Much on April 7, 2011.
Yearly Archives For 2011
Pell Grant Shell Game
Expect the education community to be up in arms over attempts by House Republicans to scale back college grant programs, but don’t expect their charges to be all that accurate.
Of Deans & Dictators
College professors love to talk about how vital their work is in a democracy but some high-profile administrators have actively sought and received donations from rulers in one-party states without a peep of protest from their star faculty members.
Testing Overload
President Obama recently delivered a broadside against standardized testing that might be worth further examination.
Academic Dissects Liberal Internationalism
Rarely do pedagogues attack anything with the word liberal attached to it. Thus it is somewhat newsworthy when one does.
Casting a Giant Shadow
She may have been out of office for more than a half a year but former D. C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee is still having an impact on the nation’s capital.
Intern Event: Affordable College & Free Food
Offering an alternative to the U. S. News & World Report college rankings, economist Richard Vedder will be the featured speaker at Accuracy in Academia’s April 7, 2011 author’s night dinner from 6-8 PM at the Van Andel Center at the Heritage Foundation.
TM Vetoed in Illinois
CRYSTAL LAKE, Ill. — School officials at an Illinois high school have agreed to stop organizing and leading students in transcendental meditation exercises, which are rooted in the Buddhist religious practice, during class time and as part of the honors English curriculum.
Princeton’s Politically Correct Seminary
When even seminaries are becoming politically correct, religious freedom is on very shaky ground.
CINO Schools & Life
Pro-life students expecting to find a haven in such institutions of higher learning find themselves sadly mistaken.