The University of Mary Washington breaks the Glass Ceiling in picking its new president but by how many stories?
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Waist Deep In The Big Media
Schools are his favorite venue but media darling Pete Seeger may want to pass on more than folk songs to the next generation.
60s Needle in Academic Haystack
Finding a front-page 60s radical four decades after the fact is a bit like finding a needle in an academic haystack: You just have to stumble upon the institution of higher learning that the professional protestor sought shelter in.
Academia’s Big Tent
You can get a pretty good idea of where academics are coming from politically and where they expect their junior colleagues to fall on the political spectrum by what they tell each other, particularly when they put it down on paper.
Venezuelans Fight for Liberty
Two leaders within the Venezuelan student movement, Yon Goicoechea and Gustavo Tovar, discuss how their movement has will promote liberty within Chavez’ repressive state.
Seeing the Secular Light
College professors trying to make young Evangelicals see the secular light might be making some headway, at least, according to the more left-leaning of these people of faith.
Racing to the Bottom
When a progressive think tank and America’s leading business group get together and critique education in the United States, it’s official and getting more so—public schools may be getting progressively more expensive but they fail to deliver the service they claim to offer.
New Leaders, New Funding?
A new, experimental policy discussed this week at the Center for American Progress (CAP) suggests reforming schools from the top down through engaged, talented principals.
CINO in Camelot
Oddly, even reporters on the education beat seem to have failed to grasp the significance of a meeting that took place 44 years ago of the Catholics they like to cover the most—the Kennedy family and Jesuit theologians.
School Board Union Label
If you think that you can go to your school board with complaints about teacher union efforts to block education reforms, think again.