Academics finding common cause with let-wing activists are not a new story, particularly since they are frequently the same people. But their effort to influence Evangelical Christians suggests a new twist on an old cliché: If you can’t beat them, subvert them.
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Read the articleDiscussions of school reform often result is shouting matches and excercises in passing the buck rather than honest discussion and creative ideas about how to fix public education, but a group of educators that spoke at AEI recently have a problem with that approach.
Read the articleWhen U. S. Rep. Joe Barton asked University of Virginia professor Michael Mann to show the science behind his global warnings, academics cried “witch hunt” but one of Mann’s peers thinks the congressman was onto something.
Read the articleDozens of prominent education programs across the country demand that their students promote social justice.
Read the articleA California professor who claimed to have been the victim of a “hate crime” was placed on paid leave last month after police determined that she herself had been the perpetrator.
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