If high schools are sensitive about assigning Mark Twain’s great classic, Huckleberry Finn, due to its pejorative language, then why is Deerfield High promoting Angels in America?
Although a compelling issue in the 2000 elections, educational issues have been eclipsed by security concerns in the War on Terror and growing fears about America’s global competitiveness.
With the transition of Cuban leadership from Fidel Castro to his brother, Raúl, academics have started speculatin about the future of the Cuban system, namely, whether the transition will birth a democratic movement.
If the common saying, “if you are young and not liberal, then you have no heart; but if you are old and not conservative, then you have no brain,” holds true, then why are our academies littered with aging Marxists and radical feminist professors?
Oakley ignores an important aspect of the Act’s inception when he insinuates that the Semper Fi Act has the end goal of reducing earmarks. Rather, the Act is likely another attempt by legislators to extend the powers of the Solomon Amendment.
“Safety” for these coalition members seems strikingly similar to silencing oppositional perspectives on sexuality and substituting sexually “unbiased” connotations for the traditional American conception of family.
Magree that America needs significant educational reform. For Center for American Progress (CAP) affiliates, at least, the front lines of that reform start with the AmeriCorps.
Despite ongoing criticisms about the racial achievement gap found in Advance Placement exam results, the College Board recently issued its annual report, asserting that minority academic proficiency is the responsibility of individual school districts, not AP test designers.
The College Board announced that the number of high-school test-takers gaining a score of 3 or more on Advanced Placement tests has risen 3.5% nationwide over the last five years, and provided a list highly success and improving states.
Modern Language Association (MLA) professors attempted to answer questions about style and meaning by drawing upon postmodern academics, one of whom belongs to the radical “naturalist” Brights movement.
In the wake of the departure of the president of the College of William and Mary over his scheduling of a sex workers’ art show, it is useful to know that the Flathats are not alone in their choice of extracurricular activities.