The former Secretary of Education following the path of his predecessors at the U. S. Department and continuing to propose ineffectual reforms that may backfire on his political constituency.
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The former Secretary of Education following the path of his predecessors at the U. S. Department and continuing to propose ineffectual reforms that may backfire on his political constituency.
As a fellow at the Hamilton Center, Mary Grabar gets to follow closely the comings and goings at nearby Hamilton College.
Most media outlets reported on the Government Accountability Office (GAO) study on disparities in school discipline without much follow up, but Manhattan Institute fellow Heather Mac Donald took a closer look at federal school and crime data and found the GAO study misleading, to say the least.
Much as professors insist that there is no bias in higher education, every survey shows otherwise, like the latest sample from The Wake Forest Review.
One of the many ironies or paradoxes of life in academia is that freedom of speech never is more complex than when it is discussed by people who speak for a living.
The other UN, the University of Nebraska, that is.
The university departments that provide them may soon have to.
If Columbia University’s Center for Palestine Studies gets any more anti-Israel than it already is, it will have to register as a foreign agent.
And they want to abolish it.
As if the line between political organizing and academic pursuits weren’t blurred enough.