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Stanford Professor of Law Jim Lindgren over at The Volokh Conspiracy is raising some important questions about academic and journalistic ethics. He’s talking about a recent piece by historian, author and college professor Michael Bellesiles in The Chronicle of Higher Education. In “Teaching Military History in a Time of War,” Bellesiles tells the story of [...]
Naomi Schaefer Riley at the Wall Street Journal brings us the latest on Teacher for America (TFA) in her interview with TFA founder Wendy Kopp. Teach for America has two goals. One is to place talented (though usually not credentialed) teachers in some of the lowest performing schools in the country. The second is to [...]
The Wall Street Journal‘s Eric Felton asks us to “Imagine If Every Celebrity Had a University.” You might call it snarky. My favorites are: The Richard Dawkins Theological Institute. A rather ordinary modern seminary in that none of the students believes in God. Most popular course: Horology 201—Intermediate watch-making with an emphasis on blindfolded manufacturing [...]
I know of no country, indeed, where the love of money has taken stronger hold on the affections of men, and where the profounder contempt is expressed for the theory of the permanent equality of property.
David Deming over at the American Thinker gives us a sampling of the good stuff to be found in his book Science and Technology in World History, Vol. 2: Early Christianity, the Rise of Islam and the Middle Ages: Both Greece and Rome made significant contributions to Western civilization. Greek knowledge was ascendant in philosophy, [...]
You can’t be in the education business too long without having a thought or two about something called constructivism. There’s not a lot of agreement about what the term means, though. Catherine Johnson over at Kitchen Table Math offers some definitions: definition constructivist classroom: A classroom in which the teacher uses pedagogical methods that are [...]
Dr. Helen asks: Have you noticed an uptick in studies that seem to say you have no or little free will? There does seem to be some evidence that there is. A July article in Time, for instance, featured the work of psychologists Ruud Custers of Utrecht University in the Netherlands and John Bargh of [...]