A California community college professor recently made headlines when a student alleged that the professor encouraged him to seek counseling due to a patriotic term paper. Legislators and health advocates fear a new presidential initiative may make similar scenarios commonplace in public schools across the country.
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Africa Explained, Finally
One of the few genuine academic experts on African Studies has explained the problems that plague that continent, such as famine and civil war, in great clarity in numerous books and articles, but his message has not been particularly welcome in academia.
Desperate Classrooms
The higher education establishment now shares the mores of popular culture—as seen in Desperate Housewives and Sex in the City and reality shows like Who Wants to Marry My Dad? —and has turned them from bawdy entertainment to theory, according to a new report from the Independent Women’s Forum.
Fear and Loathing at UNLV
The experience of Larry Summers at Harvard University shows the penalties paid by academics who are factually accurate but politically incorrect, even when they are liberal Democrats. Imagine what would happen if they were libertarians.
Off-Campus Crusaders
Students fighting campus liberals do have allies, but most are not on their campuses.
Campus Culture Warriors
While stories of illiberal professors and higher education hijinks are becoming more visible in the national media, conservative students want to do more than expose them.
Choosing the right college carefully
Up until now, we have resisted setting down on paper Accuracy in Academia’s recommended colleges.
Bias: Professoriat in Denial
Professors who support Democratic causes dominate college and university classrooms. Recent studies have shown that Democrats outnumber Republicans on college faculties by, at least, an 8-to-1 margin.
Berkeley’s Churchill
Although he had told Bill O’Reilly that he was encouraging a political, rather than an armed, intifada, Dr. Bazian made no such protestations to me.
Rescuing Reading
While the number of literary readers has remained constant since 1982—96 million—fewer Americans, as a percentage, are reading. Currently, not quite 47% of Americans admit to engaging in literary reading in the past year.
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White House Early Indoctrination
Cecilia Munoz, the White House Domestic Policy Council Director, visited the National Journal and Bill and Melinda Gates-sponsored event on education, “The Next America” to give her take on education.
Education Summit Blasts Republicans
At a National Journal and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation-sponsored event in a D.C. Grand Hyatt Hotel conference room, New Jersey Democratic Senator Robert Menendez used the event to slam the Republicans.
Enigma of Common Core
Two online courses on teaching the Common Core education initiative of the Obama Administration that are just about as vague as the program.
Remembering the Gettysburg Address
Martin Luther King, Jr. modeled his famous “I Have a Dream” speech after President Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, Allen C. Guelzo, Director of Civil War Era Studies at Gettysburg College, said at the Heritage Foundation…
Common Core Defenders
Their tales of success may leave parents grateful that they don’t have children who are students in those districts.
Uncommon Catholic Core
The Obama Administration’s Common Core education initiative may be problematic for private Catholic schools as well as the public ones the program is designed for.
Common Core in Denial
Student Achievement Partners co-founder Jason Zimba sat down the Thomas B. Fordham Institute’s Executive Vice President Michael Petrilli recently to promote Common Core, the Obama Administration’s higher education initiative.
Fidel, we hardly knew ye’
Humberto Fontova’s book, The Longest Romance: The Mainstream Media and Fidel Castro, goes a long way towards filling in the gaps in media coverage of that island dictatorship.
Activist Training @ Harvard
When a course is entitled “History of the U. S. for Policymakers, Activists, and Citizens,” you can bet that the target audience is the second group of constituents.
Remembering Communism’s Victims
Accuracy in Academia remembers the victims of communism who did not survive it in the November issue of AIA’s monthly Campus Report newsletter.