The president’s favorite think tank wants to improve teacher quality but is less clear about how its proposals differ from policies already in place.
Articles By: Malcolm A. Kline
Education Empire Strikes Back
Stung by a spate of recent documentaries on public schools, the education establishment is trying to rebut the filmmakers’ charges.
Not Your Mother’s Girl Scouts
Americans may still see the Girl Scouts of America (GSA) as an apolitical group but the group’s leader has acknowledged a marked change in the GSA.
Billion Dollar Dropout Riddle
Researchers are scratching their heads over the massive number of college dropouts.
Potemkin Presidency and Professoriat
In his recent foray to George Washington University, the president and his hosts pretty much dropped all pretexts of above-the-fray statesmanship and detached scholarship.
No Love For 70s
“I’m looking for a Ronald Reagan in 2012. I’ve lived through the 1970s.”—
George Washington University professor Henry Nau at the Heritage Foundation on September 30, 2010.
Conservative Attrition at Cornell
The conservative contingent on the faculty at Cornell dropped to zero. He left.
AIA Turns 25
Accuracy in Academia, which has been annoying academics for a quarter of a century, celebrates its 25th anniversary this year.
Academia Corrupts Free Enterprise
The danger of exposing academia and government to free enterprise is that the former will corrupt the latter.
Astroturfing Academia
Apparently, the president is having such a hard time of it politically that he is even losing faith in part of his base—academia.