The Libyan civil war did more harm to the country, its people, economy and its neighbors in North Africa when NATO intervened at the behest of U.S. President Barack Obama, concluded a University of Texas-Austin professor Alan Kuperman.
Read the articleIf you’ve seen the occasional stories on “sex weeks” at Yale and Harvard, you might be surprised to know that many colleges and universities officially devote more than seven days to the subject.
Read the articleFemale academics and professors are worried that they are being left behind by their male colleagues, not in funding, but in self-citations.
Read the articleWhen a Democratic president can’t count on full-throated support from the National Education Association (NEA), the largest teacher’s union, something may be very wrong with his education reforms.
Read the articleThe American universities pursuing cooperative relationships with their counterparts in Communist China are doing so in the hopes that these will be mutually beneficial. Yet all available evidence indicates that they are not.
Read the articleAlthough it may be considered quaint to recall the Reagan years during the Obama era, particularly in academic circles, a case could be made for doing so.
Read the articleCollege and universities have one thing in common with the federal government, along with the cash that flows from the latter to the former: They seem to be following Einstein’s definition of insanity.
Read the articleEven education insiders are beginning to acknowledge that the data mining the federal government is now engaged in under Common Core produces little in the way of education achievement.
Read the articleOne of the fascinating dichotomies in academia is that its denizens, who more often than any other group, profess themselves obsessed with society, are more likely to show themselves absorbed with self.
Read the articleEven National Public Radio (NPR) occasionally realizes that some college courses are straight from la-la land.
Read the articleA panel at the Center for American Progress discussed “The Meaning of Race in a 21st-Century America,” billed as an “in-depth discussion on the meaning of race and ethnicity in a changing America.”
Read the articleShe’s been derided in academia for decades: Panels disparaging her works are not unusual at the Modern Language Association’s annual confab.
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