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Topic: education
Government Inadvertently Promotes Chastity
My old boss, M. Stanton Evans, loved to tell a joke centered around the late Senator Jesse Helms, R-NC, a conservative icon: “Jesse Helms announced that he is now in favor of sex education in…
The Other Side of Multiculturalism
It turns out that American students have something in common with their Latin American counterparts: They don’t learn anything good about America either. “In Latin America children are often exposed to the negative aspects of…
North Carolina Imports More Teachers than it Exports
Not sure if this is something that North Carolina wants to boast about? It’s an interesting find that this state imports more teachers than it exports to other states.
Academia’s Cynical Outreach Program
Academia loves to dress up its appeal to international students in uplifting prose, but a veteran professor suggests the move may be more than just a bit calculated towards self-preservation. “The historiography of education is…
50% of College Graduates say College Education was Worth The Cost
As The Chronicle of Higher Education reported, only half of recent college graduates say their undergraduate education and cost were worth it: Only half of 30,000 college alumni polled for the Gallup-Purdue Index strongly agreed…
Hampshire College: Diversity without Depth?
As we noted in a previous post, when Hampshire College became the first institution of higher learning in the United States to shun SAT scores as an admissions requirement, the school’s president waxed rhapsodic about…
The Cost of Common Core
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…
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…
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…