Perspectives Universities Searching for Hoaxes Spencer Irvine October 27, 2015 Universities have come a long way from the days of yore when they proclaimed that part of their mission was…
Faculty Lounge Surge in Homeschooling Means Diversity of School Choice Options Spencer Irvine October 26, 2015 As the Heartland Institute reported: According to the latest data from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), the number of U.S….
Faculty Lounge African-American Parents Love School Choice Spencer Irvine Black parents overwhelmingly favor school choice and having more education options, a survey finds.
Perspectives Government Inadvertently Promotes Chastity Malcolm A. Kline October 23, 2015 My old boss, M. Stanton Evans, loved to tell a joke centered around the late Senator Jesse Helms, R-NC, a…
Perspectives The Other Side of Multiculturalism Malcolm A. Kline October 13, 2015 It turns out that American students have something in common with their Latin American counterparts: They don’t learn anything good…
Faculty Lounge North Carolina Imports More Teachers than it Exports Spencer Irvine October 12, 2015 Not sure if this is something that North Carolina wants to boast about? It’s an interesting find that this state…
Perspectives Academia’s Cynical Outreach Program Malcolm A. Kline October 11, 2015 Academia loves to dress up its appeal to international students in uplifting prose, but a veteran professor suggests the move…
Faculty Lounge 50% of College Graduates say College Education was Worth The Cost Spencer Irvine October 8, 2015 As The Chronicle of Higher Education reported, only half of recent college graduates say their undergraduate education and cost were…
Perspectives Hampshire College: Diversity without Depth? Malcolm A. Kline October 2, 2015 As we noted in a previous post, when Hampshire College became the first institution of higher learning in the United…
Perspectives The Cost of Common Core Malcolm A. Kline October 1, 2015 It may not work terribly well but Common Core sure is expensive. “The treatment of textbooks as mountains of words…
Faculty Lounge High School Teacher Tries to Make Point about NFL’s Redskins Name by Using the N-Word, Gets Put on Administrative Leave Spencer Irvine September 30, 2015 The College Fix reported: Heritage High School (Newport News, Virginia) teacher Lynne Pierce was attempting to make a point about…
Faculty Lounge Conservative Campus Newspaper Criticized for T-Shirts Spencer Irvine September 29, 2015 Social media outrage mobs descend via Facebook. Cowardly, right? In Facebook posts, the writers’ peers called them “idiotic” and “ignorant,”…
