Georgetown has hired widely known lecturers with as much teaching experience as outgoing UN Ambassador John Bolton but they have mostly been former Democratic office holders or political appointees in Democratic presidential administrations.
Articles By: Malcolm A. Kline
Common Ground
Believe it or not, there is a trio of trends in higher education that both left- and right-wing critics of academe are alarmed by.
Affirmative Academic Bias
Most data show that racial preferences do not improve the lives of black students on their own campuses yet educrats cling to affirmative action as though it were a religious relic.
Bilingual Bedlam
Massachusetts and California have scrapped their bilingual education programs while in the state that President Bush governed not so long ago school officials cling tenaciously to their two-languages-for-the-price-of-one policy.
George Washington Slipped Here
Were he alive today, the father of our country might look askance at the city, and especially the university in it, that bears his name.
Children Left Behind by NCLB
Although the controversy surrounding the Bush Administration’s No Child Left Behind (NCLB) program is usually portrayed as a classic clash of conservative and liberal political philosophies, dissatisfaction with NCLB is spreading across philosophical lines.
American History Inside Out
A look at views of how American history is taught from within the academy differs radically from the perspective that you get from so-called outsiders and helps to show why the latter make more reliable historians than the former.
Funding Failure?
The more elusive that the evidence of affirmative action’s success becomes, the more determined that the advocates of racial preferences in college admissions get in their quest to expand the program.
Genteel Poverty in Academia
College and university administrators and their representatives seem to show up in Washington, D. C. with their hats in their hands as frequently as the capital city’s homeless do. Although the former group of supplicants seeks far greater sums than the latter crowd requests, the money seems to go just as fast.
Get A Public School Clue
It’s a good thing that public school bureaucrats are not in charge of America’s Early Warning System. They are always the last to know.