Massachusetts and California have scrapped their bilingual education programs while in the state that President Bush governed not so long ago school officials cling tenaciously to their two-languages-for-the-price-of-one policy.
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UNCLB
NCLB is the vehicle by which the United States is complying with two UN sponsored international education agreements.
UC Loan Rangers
The University of California, the state’s premier public institution of higher education, also functions as a real-estate loan firm, but only for select clients.
NCLB Privatized?
Could the progress in No Child Left Behind come from private tutors? Why not cut out the middleman?
George Washington Slipped Here
Were he alive today, the father of our country might look askance at the city, and especially the university in it, that bears his name.
Dropout Blues
Statistics show that one student drops out of high school every 9 seconds, according to the Pew Partnership for Civic Change.
Higher Ed and the Democrats
If anyone ever doubted that academia is full of leftists or Democrats the latest report from the Center for Responsive Politics covering the 2005-2006 election cycle should put all arguments on the matter to rest.
Cross of William and Mary
The cross in Wren Chapel at the historic College of William
and Mary was removed last month from the altar and placed in a closet,
because the President of the College was afraid it may offend non-Christians.
Children Left Behind by NCLB
Although the controversy surrounding the Bush Administration’s No Child Left Behind (NCLB) program is usually portrayed as a classic clash of conservative and liberal political philosophies, dissatisfaction with NCLB is spreading across philosophical lines.
American History Inside Out
A look at views of how American history is taught from within the academy differs radically from the perspective that you get from so-called outsiders and helps to show why the latter make more reliable historians than the former.
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America’s Dysfunctional Universities Need to Downsize Now
As Michael Barone wrote in NRO: “American colleges and universities, long thought to be the glory of the nation, are in more than a little trouble. I’ve written before of their shameful practices — the…
Have We Lost the Cultural War?
Paul Kengor’s new book, Takedown: From Communists to Progressives, How the Left Has Sabotaged Family and Marriage, provides a detailed explanation of why, according to a new Gallup poll, “Americans are more likely now than…
California Universities Using Taxpayer Dollars to Help Illegal Immigrants
Sounds like a bad use of taxpayer funds, right? Creating facilities catering to only illegal immigrants, etc.
Black Professor Upset that He was Called Comical by Students
Being called an engaging and comical professor is offensive? Apparently so, at Northwestern University.
Fake Study on Gay Marriage also had Fake Grants and a Fake Award
The embattled UCLA graduate student researcher Michael LaCour had to retract his debunked study on attitude towards same-sex marriage when news emerged it was falsified. Now, it looks like he falsely claimed to have received…
Pittsburgh’s Duquesne University raises Minimum Wage to $16 an hour
That’s a lot of money being spent on minimum wage workers, and it beats out the $15 an hour wage advocates out on the Left/West Coast in academia. We’ll see if this is financially viable…
Academics Fix Another Problem
How many academics does it take to fix America’s criminal justice system? Twenty. That’s how many participated in a National Research Council (NRC) study of U.S. prisons and their effect on inner cities. The study…
Black Professor Annoyed His Proposed ‘Critical White Studies’ Course was Axed
As the College Fix reported: “Nathaniel Adam Tobias Coleman (who strikes through his last name “to highlight how it was bestowed on his family by slave masters in Jamaica”) was denied a full-time position at…
Notre Dame has to provide Abortifacients under ObamaCare
The courts ruled against Notre Dame University regarding the provision of abortifacient drugs, even though the college made an effort to outline how it violates religious conscience.
Major GOP Donor Adelson gives money to Organize Anti-BDS Efforts
Sheldon Adelson, a major GOP donor, is giving money to help organize anti-BDS (the divestment from Israel) movement on college campuses.