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Thomas K. Lindsay, Ph.D., Editor in Chief and Director, Center for Higher Education, Texas Public Policy Foundation
By Mark Bauerlein Why would selective colleges no longer require all or part of the SAT and ACT exams for admissions? Lots of them have made the decision to eliminate the writing portion of the exams in a remarkably short period of time—Stanford, Princeton, etc.—showing just how carefully schools monitor one another’s admissions practices and […]
(From campusreform.org): By Tory Airaksinen The American Association of University Professors, which has chapters on more than 500 campuses, is calling on its members to fight against legislation designed to protect free speech on college campuses. According to the AAUP, bills mandating penalties for infringing on free speech or forbidding the cancellation of controversial speakers are […]
By George Leef A large part of President Trump’s pledge to “drain the swamp” in Washington consists of revoking previous regulations that advanced leftist ideas about the economy and education. During the Obama years, the Departments of Education and Justice prodded colleges and universities to use race-conscious admission policies in order to achieve more diversity. […]
By William Murchison An appalling sign of an appalling tendency to let the U. S. Supreme Court settle All Important Questions is the speculation over whether Justice Anthony J. Kennedy’s eventual successor will disrupt the high court’s jurisprudence on affirmative action–chiefly, affirmative action for college admission. Why are we having this discussion to begin with? […]
(From edweek.org): By Alyson Klein More than half of principals, assistant principals, and other school leaders say schools don’t focus enough on civics, according to a nationally representative survey by the Education Week Research Center. CONTINUE READING HERE
(From Forbes.com): By Tom Lindsay If some public universities have lost sight of the fact that freedom of speech is essential to both education and American democracy, the American people are fortunate that a growing number of state legislatures have not. Several weeks ago, Louisiana Governor John Edwards signed SB 364, a bill crafted to restore […]
In this latest video from Akil Alleyne, he takes us to the Cradle of Liberty–Philadelphia, Pennsylvania–to discuss the history of free speech in America. WATCH THE VIDEO HERE
(From intellectualtakeout.org): By Barry Brownstein Reason Magazine asked students at the University of Southern California to define “hate speech.” Among the students surveyed, Reason found plenty of wannabee dictators eager to offer their definitions of hate speech and ready to make it a crime. CONTINUE READING HERE
By William Murchison Amid the present uproar over immigration, is it hard to be hard on poor Harvard for the uproar over whether the school discriminates against Asian-American applicants? Ask me another stupid question. It’s never hard to be hard on a school famed for sanctimony in the matter of disciplining criticisms of affirmative action […]
