Education

Tribal Politics Is Turning Us Against Each Other—and Science 0
- Education
- May 12, 2017
If you’ve spent much time on a college campus you’ve probably heard the claim that conservatives are anti-science. If you’re a liberal who doesn’t interact with many conservatives, you might have believed it. If you’re conservative, you probably felt frustrated and misrepresented. This view of conservatives as anti-science has been broadcast beyond the college campus.
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Oppressed Squirrels Find Champion in Feminist Scholar 0
- Education
- May 11, 2017
Squirrels in Los Angeles, California, whose victimization has been ignored for too long, have finally gained a champion in the form of Teresa Lloro-Bidart, an assistant professor in the Liberal Studies Department at California State Polytechnic University in Pomona. Lloro-Bidart’s ringing defense of squirrels against the racist human patriarchy appears in the newest issue of Gender, Place & Culture:
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Don’t Believe Those Who Say Liberal Arts Degrees Aren’t Worth It 0
- Education
- May 11, 2017
Zachary First, Managing Director of the Drucker Institute at Claremont Graduate University, opines at PayScale.com on just how misguided is the question: “Can we, in economic terms, justify investing in a degree in the humanities?” In an article titled, “When the Humanities are Worth It,” First gives an example of a degree that, ten years ago, no
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College Majors that Report the Highest Underemployment 0
- Education
- May 9, 2017
Forbes recently ran an interesting article that analyzed college degree programs and underemployment. The article was based on a survey released by PayScale, which collected data from nearly one million workers between March 2014 and March 2016. Here are the 12 majors that reported the highest rates of underemployment (a situation in which someone is
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Public Schools Shouldn’t Be Teaching ‘Values’0
- Education
- May 8, 2017
America’s public schools are getting worse, and part of the reason why is that they have taken on too much responsibility. This point was made by the famous historian Jacques Barzun in his preface to his 1983 book Teacher in America: “There [in public schools], instead of initiatives to develop native intelligence and give it
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MIT Is Making Kid-Friendly Communist Propaganda 0
- Education
- May 5, 2017
In order to make the deadliest ideology of the 20th century palatable to young Americans, “Communism for Kids” is coming to a bookstore near you. This newly released book from MIT Press “proposes a different kind of communism, one that is true to its ideals and free from authoritarianism.” The death toll from communist regimes
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