The approach of the “winter holidays” gives schools a chance to show respect for the religions of students, or not. The president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights found that public education’s guardians are at least making some strides in this direction.
Read the articleStudents can learn about a part of Africa that their African studies departments are not likely to share with them in the documentary The Devil’s Footpath.
Read the articlePublic school administrators in Maryland are attempting an even more difficult feat than capturing shadows, namely, teaching students about the origin of Thanksgiving without mentioning God.
Read the articleReed Irvine started AIA in 1985 because he saw that too many professors were using classrooms the way that too many reporters used newsrooms—to influence events rather than provide actual accounts of the past and present.
Read the articleTo be a conservative college professor in Academia today is akin to performing in a road company of Fiddler on the Roof in Syria, particularly when you are a free-market economist at one of the Seven Sisters of the Ivy League.
Read the articleA new film, FahrenHYPE 9/11, challenges the assertions of Michael Moore by rebutting key points of the recent highly publicized Fahrenheit 9/11.
Read the articleCampus Report Online, which documents the frequently-shocking political bias on college campuses and in public schools, goes live on the radio via www.Rightalk.com on Friday, October 29th from 2-3 p.m.
Read the articleThe film challenges extreme but growing ideas such as that of Gordon Feldman, professor at Brandeis University who described terrorism as merely “ways of inflicting revenge on an enemy that seems unable or unwilling to respond to rational pleas for discussion and justice.”
Read the articleIn this day and age, it is interesting to see what type of free speech that college and universities allow. A survey of some recent cases suggests that they find political statements risky, particularly conservative ones, but pornography fair game.
Read the articleSome of the media heavyweights who weighed in on the CBS scandal also moonlight as college professors. Some of these journalists, in turn, remain perplexed about the the story itself.
Read the articleFilmmaker Evan Coyne Maloney’s first effort is essential viewing for those who believe that the politically correct campus is a myth.
Read the articleYou may not be able to judge a book by its cover but you can tell a lot about a college by the titles it stocks in its bookstore.
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