On May 5 United States District Court Judge Alexander Williams, Jr. issued a temporary restraining order against the Montgomery County Public Schools Board of Education, prohibiting it from implementing the recently adopted controversial health education curriculum.
Recent Articles
Mid East Miseducation
The attention in the Middle East has long centered on fixing hardware problems, such as building infrastructure and reforming systems of government. Attention to the manner in which youth are educated has been neglected.
Anti-Catholic Social Work
A Rhode Island student recently related his experience in a social work program and garnered national attention. Sandra Fuiten faced similar problems while studying in the Midwest.
Fetishes at UIUC
Boutique academics at a recent conference on “neoliberalism” take on globalization and free markets.
An Embarrassment of Riches
Students at the nation’s top college and universities are overwhelmingly America’s wealthiest while low-income students face significant barriers in gaining admission, according to a new book.
Parents Sue District Over Homosexual Education
Montgomery County residents have sued to block implementation of a homosexual sex-ed curriculum scheduled to begin on May 5, 2005, in six pilot schools in grades 8-10.
Socialist Work
Once again, Accuracy in Academia covers a case of academic freedom denied that the AAUP ignores.
Cockeyed Payout
The City of Boston will soon announce a settlement with the family of Victoria Snelgrove, the Emerson College student who was killed by a pepper pellet shot following the ALCS.
Fallacious Academic Question
Paul Krugman is a columnist who never passes up an opportunity to throw jabs at those Americans whom he dislikes, a set that comprises anyone who doesn’t accept his big-government philosophy.
Extortion of Good News Club
School districts may not charge discriminatory fees to Christian groups for using school facilities just because they have a religious affiliation. Equal access under the First Amendment means equal treatment across the board.
Recent Articles
Chronicling Higher Education’s Disarray
A look at the latest education news seems to show that academia’s left hand doesn’t know what its far left hand is doing.
Tale Of 2 Universities
While it may be logical to view the “research university” as a hijacking of higher education, universities could, nonetheless, learn a thing or two from their research wing.
Life After Tenure
One of the few tenured professors to get laid off found that there is life after academia, and a more productive one at that.
Are Academics Culturally Taxed?
Evidently, academics finally found a tax they don’t like.
Central Planning & U
As the U. S. lurches towards a planned economy, it might be interesting to look at the experiences of countries which have already adopted this approach.
Remembering the Phillips Curve
It turns out that the man famous for concocting “the Phillips Curve” that a generation of economics students had to memorize didn’t believe in it himself.
Aging Studies @ MLA
English professors, it seems, want to teach anything but English.
Moment of Truth @MLA
When professors drop their guard, you get to realize how decayed education is, higher and lower. “We prefer to pretend that bad students don’t exist,” Gerald Graff of the University of Illinois at Chicago told the panel.
Visual Aids @ MLA
A professor from George Mason University ran a slide show of naked lesbians to accompany her presentation at the Modern Language Association (MLA) annual convention in Chicago this year.
Greening Dickens @ MLA
Apparently Rachel Carson no longer provides enough inspiration to environmentalists. They are now going back to find environmental messages written long before the first Earth Day was commemorated.