Opposition to the Common Core education reform efforts of the Obama Administration has crossed political lines to a remarkable degree.
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Women Study MOOCs
The panel, titled “MOOCs, Boutique Subjects, and Marginal Approaches,” featured five college professors who expressed fear for the future of their humanities departments and courses because of the introduction of MOOCs, mostly from a feminist perspective.
Common Core Besieged @ MLA
Gerald Graff, a professor at the University of Illinois-Chicago, presented a defense of Common Core after author and educator Diane Ravitch strongly criticized the federal education curriculum.
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Left-Wing Support Group
It’s odd watching a group of left-wing academics buck up each other’s spirits after they’ve encountered the cold, cruel world outside academe.
Adjunct professors & ObamaCare
Academia, which gave the President and his health care overhaul overwhelming support, is now cutting back on the health care it provides in order to comply with the law.
Academia v. Catholicism
As expected, the academic establishment is pushing back at the Catholic bishops for protesting the Obama Administration’s regulation that would require religious institutions to provide sterilization, abortifacients and contraceptives free of charge.
Dumb Campus Moments 2011
Courtesy of the College Fix.
AIA Honor Roll
Occasionally we actually get to cover professors whom we like. In fact, we calculate that of the 149 professors who we have covered so far this year, we’ve had nice things to say about a fifth of them.
Higher Sex Ed
Our nation’s campuses are at a crossroads – and this time has less to do with the courses that are taught and more to do with the jumble of mixed messages that confront students.
Left-leaning Lecture Halls
Universities like to think of their lecture series as extensions of the education that students get in their classrooms. Unfortunately, they usually are.