It may not work terribly well but Common Core sure is expensive. “The treatment of textbooks as mountains of words is one of the signature elements of Common Core,” Peter Wood of the National Association…
Topic: academia
Professors Write a Letter to Protest Geography Conference Panels for their ‘Whiteness’
Pretty hilarious, but if they think that’s an overwhelmingly white panel, maybe they should go to the Modern Language Association (MLA) panels in their annual conference: About 140 geography professors have added their name to…
High School Teacher Tries to Make Point about NFL’s Redskins Name by Using the N-Word, Gets Put on Administrative Leave
The College Fix reported: Heritage High School (Newport News, Virginia) teacher Lynne Pierce was attempting to make a point about racist terms and names in her AP History class, and as a result was put…
A World Without SATs
Last year, Hampshire College became the first institution of higher learning in the country to categorically reject using SATs as an admissions requirement. The college’s president, Jonathan Last, waxed rhapsodic about the results of the…
Pennsylvania College Students Upset at Inflatable Dolls
College Fix reported: An apology from the West Chester University (Pennsylvania) Campus Store Twitter account is not enough, activists say, regarding the sale of an inflatable six-inch female doll. As reported by The College Fix,…
Columbia University Files Motion to Dismiss ‘Mattress Girl’ Lawsuit
It’s sad this is still going on in the courts, really. Columbia University has asked that Paul Nungesser’s lawsuit against the school be dismissed, saying it “did nothing wrong in allowing Emma Sulkowicz […] to…
Conservative Campus Newspaper Criticized for T-Shirts
Social media outrage mobs descend via Facebook. Cowardly, right? In Facebook posts, the writers’ peers called them “idiotic” and “ignorant,” among other names, and as the online insults continued to pile up, some the publication’s…
The Real Nativists
The original piece was published by FGF Books on their website. FRONT ROYAL, VA — Some 30 years ago, Mrs. Alice du Pont Mills invited me to visit her in her expansive Virginia horse farm…
Abortion Doctor’s Ties to University of Missouri Severed
As the College Fix reported: The University of Missouri is cutting its ties with the college town’s only abortion doctor, a month after the state legislature launched a probe into the relationship between the doctor…
North Carolina Paper Bans Use of Words like “Freshman”
This is getting out of hand. Campus Reform with more on the story: The Daily Tar Heel, the student newspaper at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, has decided it will no longer use…