On this Veterans Day, I want to note an annual event I attended this week, on November 7, put on by the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA), which honored six young military heroes.
Yearly Archives For 2011
Remembering MIAs and POWs
On January 17, 1973 the Paris Peace Accords were signed by the United States, South Vietnam, Viet Cong and North Vietnam.
No Childhood Left Behind
Because this writer has gratuitously boosted Penn State football coaching legend Joe Paterno in the past, it behooves him to do a 180-degree turn now and leading from the third-person makes the task a little easier.
Dueling Education Reforms
A blogger at the American Enterprise Institute has suggested a set of principles to guide education reform. The problem is, well-intentioned and logical as they are, they look a lot like No Child Left Behind.
As the world turns…
Co-author of failed foreign policy continues to offer input from academic berth.
Teachers Desire Unearned Surplus
Believe it or not, when Nebraska teachers saved some money on their health insurance that they never paid into, many of them wanted the cash remitted to themselves.
Ivory Tower Occupation
See the connection between academia and the Occupy Wall Street protests in the latest issue of AIA’s monthly Campus Report newsletter.
ReEducation of Diane Ravitch
Where once she called for accountability in elementary and secondary education, she now finds it abhorrent. Why the change?
Dartmouth’s Misleading Health Data
The intersection of academia and government is one in which the interests of elites can collide with our own well-being.
Tenure: The Numbers Game
“Within a discipline, professors count rather than read the publications of their colleagues who are up for tenure; and once one gets outside one’s field, no one dares quarrel with a record that contains enough articles in good enough journals that are widely enough cited.”—James R. Stoner, Jr., political science professor at Louisiana State University in the Fall 2011 issue of the Claremont Review of Books.
Book Review
Book Review: Is ‘The Dying Citizen’ a Prediction of America’s Future?
America’s ongoing and seemingly-constant crises have left Americans scrambling to find a sense of normalcy and safety. Just in time, to cut through the chaotic bombardment of conflicting messages and opinions while providing a voice…
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