This is ridiculous, isn’t it? An update from FIRE: Last week, several news outlets reported that a student at the University of Tennessee (UT) received a zero on a quiz—a grade his professor justified because…
Topic: Accuracy in Academia
College Bureaucracies Grew 15% during the Great Recession, while Budgets and Tuition Rose
From The Hechinger Report: Even if some system offices are finally taking over functions once left to the campuses, any widespread savings — as measured by collective reductions in positions and spending — have yet…
The Left’s All-Out Assault on the First Amendment
The Left wants to silence opposition: The Constitution has long been subject to attacks from individuals hostile to its guarantees of freedom, economic opportunity, and limited government, but in recent days no other provision has…
“The Terrorist Threat against U.S. has Never Been Greater” says Johns Hopkins Lecturer
At the Heritage Foundation, Dr. Mary Habeck, an adjunct lecturer at John Hopkins’ School of Advanced International Studies (known as SAIS), noted that terrorism has spiked since 2011. She said that today, “the terrorist threat…
The Trump Treatment for a Campus Conservative
I was disinvited from a college debate on the campus of the State University of New York in New Paltz last March. Left-wing professors didn’t want to hear me debate a left-winger on media coverage…
Study: Biofuels could Cause More Carbon Emissions than Gasoline
That’s quite the counternarrative, if the study’s results hold up in future studies conducted on the same subject: Motor vehicle “biofuels” like ethanol made from corn and soybeans may cause more carbon emissions than gasoline,…
CUNY Professor has been Accused of Sexual Harassment due to His Syllabus
A professor’s department chair accused a professor of sexual harassment due to his syllabus: A professor at the City University of New York’s Brooklyn College was ordered to make changes to his syllabus because it…
Miranda Rights Should be Reconsidered
Should the U.S. Supreme Court reconsider the famous ‘Miranda’ rights? One law professor at the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law, Paul Cassell, made a case for remaking what we know today as…
Does the NAACP Want to Keep Minority Children Trapped in Poverty?
An insightful piece from the Wall Street Journal: The NAACP’s statement Saturday shows how out of touch its well-to-do board members are with American education. It calls for a ban on new charters until “charter…
Poll finds 85% of Black Voters think North Carolina should Expand School Choice
85% of black voters in North Carolina want more school choice, poll finds.