Many public schoools have begun incorporating mental health screening tests into their curriculum, and may soon be analyzing family circumstances as a factor influencing low school performance under the No Child Left Behind requirements.
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Ward Churchill Goes Down
The
National Association of Scholars welcomes the 8-to-1 decision of the University
of Colorados Board of Regents to strip Ward Churchill of his tenured appointment
as a faculty member .
Summer of Love Saps
Tenured professors remember the Summer of Love as if they could ever forget or would let their hapless students have a memory lapse about their favorite year.
First Amendment Covers Religion Too
Public schools that clamp down on religious expression do so in the face of a stream of court decisions that uphold the rights of students and teachers to express themselves religiously, albeit with caveats.
Subjectivity UC Style
In the University of California (U.C.) system, college applicants are tired of having their religious studies marginalized.
Law School Letdown
Strange as it may seem, it is quite possible for someone who has never gone to law school to be a good attorney.
MLA Guide to Remedial Writing
One-third of college students need remedial coursework, teaching associate John Dunn told the crowd at the annual meeting of the Modern Language Association (MLA) late last year.
Activist Academics at MLA
If the largest conclave of college English professors in the country sometimes sounded like a Democratic Party strategy session at the Modern Language Association meeting late last year, it might be because the two groups’ membership rolls have an overlap.
Thoroughly Modern MLA
In a way, the largest collection of English professors in the country—the Modern Language Association (MLA)—is true to at least the first part of its name. What many laymen think of as the classics—British literature up to the 20th Century—is the focus of about one-tenth of the hundreds of panel discussions at the MLA annual meeting.
Composition without Writing
Among college English professors, the passing on of literary traditions and literacy has gone from avocation to afterthought to alien concept, as can be seen in the annual conventions of the Modern Language Association.