Recent Articles

Charter Schools are Taking Off

, Malcolm A. Kline

  At least one form of very productive education disruption is growing exponentially. “Parents can choose public schools for their children in 55 percent of the nation’s largest school districts, more than double the percent…

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Common Core of Profit

, Mary Grabar

Editor’s Note: The original post was published by the Selous Foundation for Public Policy Research. James O’Keefe’s undercover videos reveal what activists have been saying for years: Common Core is a set of standards written…

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Fyodor We Hardly Knew Ya

, Malcolm A. Kline

The Modern Language Association (MLA) gave new meaning to the term “in-depth study” at the annual MLA convention in Austin, Texas in January. “What Crime and Punishment is really about is aberrant male sexuality and…

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Getting to Know Goethe

, Malcolm A. Kline

Occasionally you can actually learn about classic authors at the Modern Language Association (MLA). Attended by thousands of English professors from around the world, too often the MLA emphasizes the “Modern” part of their acronym…

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Aging at the MLA

, Malcolm A. Kline

One way in which the world’s largest conclave of English professors—the Modern Language Association (MLA)—lives up to its name is to leave attendees at its annual conferences with a new vocabulary that they cannot shake….

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Recent Articles

Fake Diplomas

, Malcolm A. Kline

It is perhaps appropriate, although distressingly so, that in our increasingly ersatz society, education is in the vanguard.

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