Expect the education community to be up in arms over attempts by House Republicans to scale back college grant programs, but don’t expect their charges to be all that accurate.
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Academic Dissects Liberal Internationalism
Rarely do pedagogues attack anything with the word liberal attached to it. Thus it is somewhat newsworthy when one does.
Deconstructing Composition
Colleges and universities pride themselves on producing erudite citizens. Nevertheless, by nearly available benchmark, they are failing in this regard, although they don’t seem to realize it.
Georgetown Professor Debates Self
In the May 2011 issue of The American Conservative, a Georgetown professor debates himself and both sides of the debate lose.
Media & Rutgers Collude on Abortion
Beware of polls, particularly when they are done by universities, distributed through their PR offices and given and disseminated by the media.
Al-Jazeera Hosts Academics
The Al-Jazeera terror TV channel “forum” in Doha, Qatar, not only hosted a top leader of the Hamas terrorist group, but several American commentators and professors of journalism and political science.
Philosophy Prof Misreads Capitalism
A professor from Adelphi University shows why it is dangerous to avoid the advice of conservative author and activist David Horowitz.
School Boards Shun Unions
Even more so than the recent defeats in states such as Wisconsin, a sure sign of the declining influence of teacher unions is the distance that school boards are putting between themselves and the union reps.
WikiLeaks & The CJR
Not so surprisingly, the Columbia Journalism Review has weighed in on the WikiLeaks controversy. Somewhat surprisingly, the article that the magazine published by the Journalism School at Columbia University ran on WikiLeaks is a bit more nuanced than its full-throated endorsement of Al-Jazeera.
Revisionist Analysis of Wisconsin Crisis
Wisconsin’s government unions may be losing support with the public but they might have picked up at least one academic supporter.
Book Review
Book Review: Is ‘The Dying Citizen’ a Prediction of America’s Future?
America’s ongoing and seemingly-constant crises have left Americans scrambling to find a sense of normalcy and safety. Just in time, to cut through the chaotic bombardment of conflicting messages and opinions while providing a voice…
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