If you had any doubts that higher education in America today is modeled more along the lines of Stalinist techniques than the Socratic method, you won’t after reading Ben Shapiro’s Brainwashed.
Book Reviews
A Model College, and Man
“We have succeeded in sending a great many people to college and university,” Russell Kirk noted more than 25 years ago. “We have not succeeded in educating most of them.”
Non-lingual Education
A former education official exposes multiculturalists’ grip on textbook publishers.
The Dream World Of An Academic Icon
John Kenneth Galbraith was a leader in American academia in condemning the market economy without ever, it appears, actually having studied it.
Politically Incorrect Reading
Decades of teaching in colleges and universities and exposure to alleged history textbooks such as the California-approved Rereading America led Dr. George Zilbergeld to compose his own textbook, audaciously entitled A Reader for the Politically Incorrect.
Policing The Language
In her book The Language Police, Diane Ravitch opens our eyes to the world behind school textbooks, a world ruled by censorship and dictated by the demands of interest groups.
Class Warfare In Education
The push towards equality in education has made a casualty of excellence, a political science professor finds.
Education: Parental Guidance Suggested
Two scholars find that the solution to the problems in education lies not in more government involvement but in greater parental control.
Religion on campus need not be an oxymoron
Many college students and even more university administrators do not realize that the former not only have the consitutional right to worship but can do so on campus.
The Blackboard Jungle Revisited
When a journalist and scholar specializing in education experiences New York’s public schools as a parent, he finds the experience even more alarming than the statistics.