Articles by Bethany Stotts

College Prep

DC Vouchers at Crossroads

Funding for the Washington Scholarship Fund (WSF), more commonly referred to as the DC voucher program, is likely to run out at the end of next academic year due to a sunset provision designed by Illinois Senator Dick Durbin (D).

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Kors on FIRE

Oppression studies have colonized the new campus, spreading academic orthodoxies throughout the Humanities, argued Alan Charles Kors at CPAC.

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Poverty of Ideas

President Obama recently outlined four areas he would like the new White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships to focus on: poverty, fatherhood, abortion reduction, and interfaith dialogue.

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Ayers Under Fire

Bill Ayer’s reputation may not be so rosy after the time he spent in this year’s election spotlight.

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Same To You Buddy

“Ask God what your grade is.” These are among the words found on a teacher evaluation form stuffed in Jonathan Lopez’ backpack last November following his in-class presentation on God and miracles.

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2008 MLA Unplugged

Accuracy in Academia would like to offer its own, uncensored, top-ten list of this year’s MLA presentations.

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Radical Teaching Defined

In the effort to radicalize students willing to work for social change, “critical” teachers may be forgetting to let their students freely choose their own ideological positions in the first place.

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Reading Between the Studies

David Kipen, representing the National Endowment for the Arts, travelled to this year’s Modern Language Association Convention to promote The Big Read, a NEA program which combats declining reading habits by enlisting members of the community to read a piece of literature simultaneously

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McCarthy Unplugged

The academic antipathy toward Joe McCarthy was in full swing at this year’s Modern Language Association (MLA) Convention.

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Of Monsters, Moms, and Metal Men

What do psychology, Jurassic Park, Star Trek, and Rouben Mamoulian’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde have in common? They represent lessons in developmental miscarriages, deadly toilet training, and inflamed bestial passions, according to three professors.

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Animalistic Shakespeares Explored

Not only did the Bard speak to human nature and love, but he also spoke to philosophy, epistemology, and sociology, according to four Modern Language Association (MLA) scholars speaking at a panel arranged by the Division on Shakespeare.