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Following in the spirit of Halloween, albeit a bit belated, are several academic surprises, courtesy of The Chronicle of Higher Education.

George Washington University is actually bringing a one-time Republican officeholder to its’ Foggy Bottom campus, of course, he is no longer a member of the GOP.

Accommodation of the Soviet Union, to one degree or another, was itself a byproduct of academic thought.

Perhaps the Left has discovered a form of western civilization it likes—at least of the modern-day variety.

How can a deep blue campus go purple? By a statistical fluke.

The president just expanded the U. S. Department of Education by executive order.

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.

Stung by a spate of recent documentaries on public schools, the education establishment is trying to rebut the filmmakers’ charges.

An education blogger you may never have expected.

While the White House might argue the point, it appears that the epidemic of Obamamania that swept across the nation’s college campuses a couple of years ago ended before the midterm elections.

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.

The danger of exposing academia and government to free enterprise is that the former will corrupt the latter.