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Will Common Core produce well-educated Americans or indoctrinated pacifist global citizens?

Doubtless the president’s amen corner in academia loved it when he answered a debate question on jobs with a dissertation on education. Yet while academics may have stomped and whistled, those unenlightened folk outside the faculty lounge might be forgiven if they find the First Answer clueless.

Original documents are presented in such a manner as to actually diminish them.

Ayers and his allies used the “critical policy area” of education, and through four aims: “local school councils,” small schools, social justice teaching, and payment of reparations through education spending.

When initial White House visitor logs were released in 2009, the administration quickly dismissed speculations about visits by “William Ayers.”

Three years after the Department of Education announced a contest called Race-to-the-Top for $4.35 billion in stimulus funds, some parents, teachers, governors, and citizen and public policy groups are coming to an awful realization about the likely outcomes.

Tens of thousands of students in Texas with microchip ids.

The Department of Education thinks it has found out what is wrong with American higher education—not enough extracurricular activities, specifically, not enough political ones.

The fiftieth anniversary of the seminal book Silent Spring was bound to inspire at least one tribute from academia.

Ninety  Georgetown  faculty members and administrators have gone public with a letter attacking Republican vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan’s budget proposal but the bill of particulars in the missive does not match up to the content of his plan.

It turns out that the United States may be losing out on yet another international education comparison.

On June 14, 2012, Mal Kline, the executive director of Accuracy in Academia, debated John K. Wilson of the American Association of University Professors at the Heritage Foundation. Wilson, who edits the academe blog for the AAUP, and Kline spoke before a capacity audience of Capitol Hill interns at AIA’s first author’s night of 2012. […]