Sure, not politically correct, but perhaps correct, nonetheless. ======== By Michael J. Petrilli And Aaron Churchill April 27, 2015 7:21 p.m. ET As difficult and disliked as school closures can be, a new study being released Tuesday by the Fordham Institute indicates that the students usually benefit. When we looked at the impact of closures on their achievement, we found that, on average,... Read more
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Shutting Bad Schools, Helping Students
April 29 | Posted by mrossol | Education, Party Politics, The LeftThe Study of Military History
March 28 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Education, Military, Western CivilizationThe topic as been purged from US university curricula at our peril. ============ From remarks by Lewis E. Lehrmanat the New-York Historical Society on March 23, when the $50,000 Guggenheim-Lehrman Prize in Military History was awarded to Alexander Watson’s “Ring of Steel: Germany and Austria-Hungary in World War I” (Basic Books, 2014): The study of military history has in fact been purged from... Read more
Colleges Need a Business Productivity Audit
December 29 | Posted by mrossol | Economics, EducationAnd you would think universities would be leading the effort to figure this out. Not. =========== By Frank Mussano And Robert V. Iosue Dec. 28, 2014 6:54 p.m. College tuition rates are ridiculously out of hand. Since the late 1970s, tuition has surged more than 1,000%, while the consumer-price index has risen only 240%. The percentage of annual household income required to... Read more
The High Cost of Unfree Speech on College Campuses
December 27 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Education, Politically correct, The LeftSome good stuff. === How many salaried counselors, deans and lawyers does it take to prohibit the distribution of copies of the U.S. Constitution on campus? WSJ Dec. 21, 2014 3:07 p.m. Regarding your editorial “Unfree Speech on Campus” (Dec. 13): Recently, at the University of Michigan, one conservative Muslim student was suspended from the establishment paper, The Michigan Daily, and had his door... Read more
