On August 15, in the middle of a ratings desert on Comedy Central, Richard H. Brodhead, the president of Duke University, gamely pitched the humanities in his five-minute close-up with ...
Mau-Mauing at UCSD
The University of California at San Diego race protests continue. Weeks of shameless histrionics to extract university resources along racial lines have not ended, and tensions seem to be escalating.
The ...
University of Minnesota’s Teacher-Education Redesign Initiative
Katherine Kersten, a columnist for the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, has an excellent track record spotting radical ideas floating around Minnesota campuses. She first alerted us last month to the University ...
Fuzzy Reading
Last year, New York City parents objected to reading books put in their local school’s sixth-grade classroom library. They complained about Am I Blue?, a collection of stories about gay ...
Civics V. Citizenship
For some time in U.S. schools, traditional civics education has been on the defensive. Many social-studies educators think the study of basic governmental principles is “dry.” They shrink from civics ...
Newdow & Us
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for ...