At the Modern Language Association (MLA) convention in Vancouver, Canada, the degree to which many professors are divorced from reality was brought into sharp focus. Few panels at the conference that draws thousands of English…
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Teachers Support School Choice
More than half of American teachers support school choice, a Democratic pollster said at the National Press Club on January 22, 2015. “Fifty-five percent of teachers support the concept of school choice,” Debbie Beck said….
When MLA gets Religion Wrong
When professors do pay attention to religion, they usually get it wrong. “Conservatives would rather have [social welfare] provided by religious organizations, which is incompatible with other aspects of Catholic social teaching,” Robin Sowards, an…
Tim Scott: D.C. School Choice = Fewer Dropouts
Waiting lists are one sign of the desirability of school choice. Graduation rates are another, and they seem to rise in tandem. In Washington, D.C., the “waiting list for students in the DC area for…
Adjunct Professors Feel the Pinch at MLA
Despite its claims of proletarian empathy, it turns out that the Modern Language Association (MLA) does not cut many breaks to those struggling within its ranks. At the MLA’s annual meeting in Vancouver, Canada this…
Free Speech Confusion at the MLA
The academically free have different ideas of what free speech means than the rest of us do. At the Modern Language Association’s 2015 convention in Vancouver, Canada, Rosaura Sanchez [pictured above at a protest], a…
Remedial Radical Professors
At the Modern Language Association’s 2015 convention in Vancouver, Canada, Susan O’Malley, currently an English professor at the City University of New York (CUNY), lamented that remedial education could not be stopped in New York….
MLA Ignores Victims of Communism
The fall of communism and socialism have “robbed” the “post-Sovietized world,” Noemi Marin of Florida Atlantic University suggested at this year’s Modern Language Association (MLA) conference in Vancouver, Canada. After the fall of the Berlin…
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VIDEO: #BlackLivesMatter Fizzles at the MLA
The Black Lives Matter protest movement, found its way to the Modern Language Association (MLA) convention in Vancouver, but failed to attract much support from the left wing attendees. Despite an estimated 7,000 left-wing professors…
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Are Best and Brightest Getting Shafted?
It depends on their zip code, a pair of researchers suggest.
New York Governor Plans on Giving Free College Tuition to ‘Dreamers’
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo plans on giving free college tuition for ‘Dreamers,’ or illegal immigrant students, this upcoming school year.
Michigan State Professor: White People who do Yoga are Enjoying a ‘System of Oppression’
Shreena Gandhi, a religious studies professor at Michigan State University, claimed that white students who do yoga are enjoying a “system of oppression.”
Kellogg Community College Settles With YAL
College and university administrators may want to think twice about deterring students from passing out copies of the U. S. Constitution: They may not find it unconstitutional, but it can get expensive.
Groups Demand Title VI Reform
Fourteen groups sent a letter to Congress urging lawmakers to bring more diversity to Middle East Studies grants.
Judge Says No To Transgender Student
And it’s a word they don’t get to hear much.
Professors With TDS Retreat to Davos
The enclave in the Alps in which the President went to the World Economic Forum is apparently something like Aspen and draws the same type of people.
Committee Chair Seeks To Overhaul Federal Aid
U. S. Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-NC, is seeking to overhaul America’s cumbersome system of federal aid to education. She is one of the backers of the PROSPER Act now making its way through Congress. “College…
Vermont High School Plans to Fly ‘Black Lives Matter’ Flag for Black History Month
For Black History Month, Montpelier High School in Vermont will fly a ‘Black Lives Matter’ flag on their high school campus.
University of Tennessee’s ‘Men’s Project’ Fights Back against Masculinity
University of Tennessee’s ‘Men’s Project’ aims to combat toxic masculinity on college campuses.
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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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