Perspectives

Two authors who collectively have sold hundreds of millions of copies of their books decades after their deaths receive scant…

It turns out that American students have something in common with their Latin American counterparts: They don’t learn anything good…

Academia loves to dress up its appeal to international students in uplifting prose, but a veteran professor suggests the move…

Generations of students have been taught that we are a nation of immigrants but inquiring minds beg to differ. Well,…

A well-informed scholar recently made an important distinction between  patriotism and nationalism. “Nationalism is an ideology that implies that there…

Some professors are more rooted in reality than others. Unfortunately, they tend to be retired. “President Lincoln called on every…

As we noted in a previous post, when Hampshire College became the first institution of higher learning in the United…

It may not work terribly well but Common Core sure is expensive. “The treatment of textbooks as mountains of words…

Last year, Hampshire College became the first institution of higher learning in the country to categorically reject using SATs as…

In the last presidential election, the Republican candidate, Mitt Romney, received much derision when he announced in a debate that…

Fundamental law of physics: For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. “At the start of the fall…

Thanks to Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), the socialist running for president, we are learning that one of the latest examples…