In the effort to radicalize students willing to work for social change, “critical” teachers may be forgetting to let their students freely choose their own ideological positions in the first place.
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House GOP Offers Plan B
Responding to a request given by President Obama for involvement, the House Republicans came up with the House Republican Economic Recovery Plan. It is their alternative to the stimulus package.
Russia’s Unclenched Fist
The Russian invasion of Georgia was a wakeup call to policy makers across the United States, Europe and Central Asia.
Reading Between the Studies
David Kipen, representing the National Endowment for the Arts, travelled to this year’s Modern Language Association Convention to promote The Big Read, a NEA program which combats declining reading habits by enlisting members of the community to read a piece of literature simultaneously
The Other Gas Wars
The most recent gas war between Russia and Ukraine took place January 1st after political tension caused gas price negotiations between the two countries to fall apart and Russia cut gas flows to Ukraine.
BC Crosses to Bear
Accuracy in Academia has devoted considerable attention to policies and practices at Boston College that make the institution run by the Jesuit order of priests sometimes look “Catholic in name only.”
Golden Fleece of Stimulation
A noted left-wing writer actually found a Democrat he disapproves of. Naturally, the target of his angst has been dead for four years.
Shakespeare’s Feminist Critics
The tragedy of too many college courses on William Shakespeare these days is that students may be learning more about literary criticism than the Bard himself.
McCarthy Unplugged
The academic antipathy toward Joe McCarthy was in full swing at this year’s Modern Language Association (MLA) Convention.
Economic Tea Leaf Reading
In this age of financial insecurity, everyone has their own cure for the disease that ails the economy.