Stern cites Massachusetts as a shining example of school reform, going so far as to say that “something close to an education miracle has occurred.”
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Sabbaticals for Dummies
Those of us who have long been curious about what professors do on sabbatical could glean one sort of an answer from Oregon University English professor Edwin Battistella’s tongue-in-cheek (we think) listing of “Twenty-Five things to do on sabbatical” that appeared in the Fall 2007 issue of The Montana Professor.
Poetic (In)Stability
The MLA debate between qualitative and accentual syllabic verse, and between different styles of writing, became as much a commentary on the nature (and antecedents) of government.
Arms Control Dreams
America may be heading toward another arms race, according to Mike Moore, a research fellow at The Independent Institute who recently published the book Twilight War: The Folly of U.S. Space Dominance.
War on Terror Complex
The War on Terror is yet another example of the state using a national emergency to promote its own growth, according to Robert Higgs, a Senior Fellow in Political Economy for the Independent Institute.
Shakesqueer
The recent Shakespeare panel at the 2007 Modern Language Association (MLA) convention, ironically titled “Shakesqueer,” featured four queer theorists presenting articles soon to be published by the notoriously liberal Duke University press.
Pleasure Now or Never
Art History Professor Christopher Reed offered his own unique conception of pleasure in the workplace by highlighting the social virtues of homosexual references in the television sitcom Will & Grace and a YouTube video titled “Shoes.”
Academic Freedom Without Limits
Largely avoiding discussions of students’ academic freedom, the panel argues that, especially among politicized subjects, professors’ academic freedom is threatened by student evaluations, scarce tenure, and even their own professional code of ethics.
Queen of Cuba Dethroned
A new book shows us that communist spies are not, as some professors would have us believe, a figment of our imagination.
UC Quota Shell Game
The University of California is more ethnically obsessed than it was in 1996, when Californians voters passed Proposition 209, the law that bars the use of racial quotas in state education, employment and contracting.