Scan through any college catalogue and you will find courses that are painfully obvious, at best, and trivial, at least.
News
Education Summit Blasts Republicans
At a National Journal and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation-sponsored event in a D.C. Grand Hyatt Hotel conference room, New Jersey Democratic Senator Robert Menendez used the event to slam the Republicans.
Common Core Defenders
Their tales of success may leave parents grateful that they don’t have children who are students in those districts.
Uncommon Catholic Core
The Obama Administration’s Common Core education initiative may be problematic for private Catholic schools as well as the public ones the program is designed for.
Fidel, we hardly knew ye’
Humberto Fontova’s book, The Longest Romance: The Mainstream Media and Fidel Castro, goes a long way towards filling in the gaps in media coverage of that island dictatorship.
Activist Training @ Harvard
When a course is entitled “History of the U. S. for Policymakers, Activists, and Citizens,” you can bet that the target audience is the second group of constituents.
Where’s the Real Diversity?
The latest issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education includes a special supplement on “Diversity in Academe” that is only missing one thing.
Journalism School Discovers News
The Columbia Journalism School has discovered something newspaper readers and television viewers have long been seeking—facts.
Do Pell Grants Raise Tuition?
Academics tend to circle the wagons when you suggest that Pell grant increases lead to tuition hikes.
Academic Blame Bush Syndrome
The 212-page book could have included scandals from at least the first term of President Barack Obama, but they were conspicuously missing.