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Thousands of commercial programs are being run by state and private non-profit universities, engaging in unfair competition with for-profit companies, including small businesses.

U. S.  Secretary of Education Arne Duncan  “will unilaterally override the centerpiece requirement of the No Child Left Behind school accountability law, that 100 percent of students be proficient in math and reading by 2014.”

Jessica Quillin’s report, sponsored by the Center for American Progress (CAP), details the struggles of the School Improvement Grants (SIG) program in light of the passage of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) and No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB).

Yet another reason to dread federal control of education: federal officials. For one thing, they actually believe all of that class warfare rhetoric.

The nature of the liberal mainstream media and academic elite is such that we typically only hear one side of an argument—and that argument is neither balanced nor contested.

A Center for American Progress (CAP) report, written by Frank Adamson and Linda Darling-Hammond argues for raising schoolteachers’ salaries.

The adamant position of  Professor Asifa Quraishi of the University of Wisconsin Law School is that Sharia is a “way of life” which takes shape in everyday activities such as dietary norms, praying five times a day, doing good and tithing, which are in many ways no different than religious customs of Jews and Christians.

Hard-hitting reporting of higher education has been so abysmal for so long that when newspapers cut back on their coverage of it, readers seldom notice.

Accuracy in Academia is proud to announce that veteran journalist Cliff Kincaid will speak at the AIA author’s night on July 20, 2011.

On the 50^th anniversary of Whittaker Chambers’ death, July 9, it is appropriate for the media to address the legacy of international communism and the Western response.

Accuracy in Academia’s next author’s night will showcase a special report published by AIA’s sister organization—Accuracy in Media. “Headlines and Breadlines: Reaganomics and Obamanomics in the Media and in Reality” looks at how the New York Times and The Washington Post covered two epochal presidencies.

When academics actually get a chance to implement international law, justice doesn’t take a back seat: It gets kicked out of the car.