At the MLA session, “Online Innovations: From Distance Learning to MOOC Madness,” professors from Carnegie Mellon, Rochester and Utah addressed a myriad of concerns about MOOCs.
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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.
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.
MLA Hates Common Core
When education reforms are attacked by both the Left and Right, maybe both sides have a good point.
Anti-War Movement Found @ MLA
Many have wondered what happened to the anti-war movement since President Bush left office. We think we found it, at the Modern Language Association (MLA).
MLA doing Iran’s Bidding
Although the title of a panel at the Modern Language Association indicated it would be a forum for dissident Iranian artists, the panelists made few claims that the dictatorship there might dispute.
Are MOOCs the Future?
Professors from Stanford, Brigham Young University and University of Colorado at Boulder claimed that massive open online courses, known as MOOCs, are not a threat to their profession, while simultaneously showing their colleagues how they could get in on the action.
Flawed History @ MLA
Perhaps one of the unfortunate byproducts of the lumping together of English and History under the rubric “Humanities” is that English professors start to think of themselves as historians. When they try to be, they prove that they are not.
Zero Dark Thirty @ the MLA
The MLA held a panel discussion on American torture policy, according to comic books and popular movies like Zero Dark Thirty or V for Vendetta.
Cuba Onstage, Castro Off
At the Modern Language Association’s “Cuba on Stage” panel in Chicago, Fidel Castro escaped criticism and mention by name from several art and music professors.
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Small Liberal Arts Colleges Getting Smaller
But not for administrators.
UCLA Backed Down from Security Fees Demand after Lawsuit Threatened
UCLA backed down from demands that if 70% of an event’s attendees were not students, faculty or staff, the Republican student chapter had to pay all security-related fees for the event.
Brandeis University Canceled Counter-Narrative Black Lives Matter Play
A play that counters some Black Lives Matter narratives has been canceled at Brandeis University after outcry and criticism by students and alumni.
Fact-free Repression @ Rutgers, and just about everywhere else
At a Rutgers University panel discussion in October, “Identity politics: the new racialism on campus?,” sponsored by Spike, “a British anti-misanthropy current-affairs magazine,” audience members began interrupting the panelists with chants of “black lives matter!”…
Academia Won’t Quit H8ing
The very people, professors, who tell us to be civil and tolerant may be the most uncivil and intolerant of us all.
Feds Defund WGU
After an audit, the U. S. Department of Education’s inspector general has deemed Western Governors University unworthy of federal student aid.
USC Professor: I Stand Behind My Tweets about Trump and Destroying Whiteness
University of Southern California professor Charles H.F. Davis defended his recent tweets that slammed President Donald Trump and called for violence to destroy whiteness.
Emerson College Student Activists Want Mandatory Culture and Race Training
About three hundred student activists demanded mandatory race and culture trainings to counter alleged microaggressions at Emerson College.
High Tech Cheating at UIowa
Apparently a University of Iowa wrestler learned just enough code to pin down his own answers and grades.
Is English becoming surpassed in U. S. schools?
When President Obama was running for office he suggested that instead of worrying whether everyone spoke English, Americans should learn to speak Spanish but is that even sufficiently multilingual today?
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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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The Origins of Political Correctness
Emerson College: ‘Homosexual’ is Offensive to Gays so Stop Using It
Self-Identifying Marxist Professors Outnumber Conservatives as College Professors
Ayn Rand Reconsidered
Black Lives Matter Lists “White Supremacy, Patriarchy, Capitalism” Among Reasons for Orlando Attack
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