For education reformers, this year will bring a mix of the old and the new, as lawmakers bridge the gap between the lingering stalemates of 2006 and the policy innovations of 2007.
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Brokeback University
Philadelphia is not just a place where Broadway shows go on out of town tryouts. When the Modern Language Association meets there, Ph.D. candidates test their theses there too.
MLA Guide to World War II
The often-esoteric Modern Language Association is commemorating a conflict too rapidly fading from collective memory—World War II— but the eclectic amalgamation of thousands of college and high school English professors is doing so in a manner that obscures key facts about the war, namely, what was at stake.
Global Warming on Ice
Environmentally conscious undergrads beware: some of the same people warning of the dangers of global warming now were predicting an ice age back in the 1970s.
Ideological Bias at UCI?
Could we be losing the war on terror on campus?
Princetonian Take on Terror
What made the Bush Administration think that they would find an employee of the month in the Ivy Leagues?
NCLB Trifecta
The American Enterprise Institute (AEI) recently asked strategically located scholars to assess No Child Left Behind in California, New Jersey, and Colorado.
Crisis in Suburban Schooling
Talk of high property taxes and fraud in the administration probably cause you to think of issues on Capitol Hill. Well, not in this case. These are two major problems facing suburban school systems nationwide.
CHRISTMAS ON THE CAMPUS
Catholic League president Bill Donohue discusses the way Christmas is being celebrated on college campuses this year.
Genteel Poverty in Academia
College and university administrators and their representatives seem to show up in Washington, D. C. with their hats in their hands as frequently as the capital city’s homeless do. Although the former group of supplicants seeks far greater sums than the latter crowd requests, the money seems to go just as fast.