Recent years have made it hard to consider extreme elements in the Muslim world as anything but dangerous, tyrannical, and extreme, but recent attacks across the Middle East have shed light on their newest victims – Christians.
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Korea After Kim
The death of Kim Jong-il raises many questions about the future of North Korea.
Schools Behind the Learning Curve
While most politicians point to education as a prerequisite for economic success, most Americans aren’t sure schools are up to that task.
Academic Preoccupations
The presence of students in the Occupy movement has become more well-documented by the day, but the degree to which their professors have goaded them to take part in it has received much less attention.
Catholic Scholars Blast GOP
Forty-four scholars signed onto an open letter critical of former U. S. Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA) and former U. S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-GA) but a look at the signatories raises more questions about them than about the presidential candidates.
Hidden Costs of Race
On the face of it, Democratic President Barack Obama’s Race to the Top education policy is cheaper for American taxpayers than Republican President George W. Bush’s No Child Left Behind.
Academia Transformed
A look at the cutting edge concerns of gender studies departments helps give us an idea of just how wide a gulf there is between academics and mere mortals.
AIA On Speech Codes
Accuracy in Academia has signed onto a letter to the U. S. Department of Education urging the agency not to encourage more restrictive speech codes at colleges and universities.
Community Organizing @ AU Law
In American University’s law school lecture series this Spring, legal training is virtually indistinguishable from community organizing.
Da U & Roe v. Wade
The University of Scranton, which bills itself as “a nationally recognized Catholic and Jesuit university in Pennsylvania’s Pocono Mountains region,” has invited a pro-choice speaker to its campus—former U. S. Rep. Marjorie Margolies.