ACTA, the American Council of Trustees and Alumni, recently hosted a gathering at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C. for people interested in education issues within the local public policy community. In the...
The older Americans are, and the less time they have spent on a college campus, the more likely they are to believe that professors are politically biased. That’s the chief finding of a question...
The modern academy is notoriously immune from accountability, as Larry Summers so painfully learned at Harvard. So it is worth noting, and applauding, the achievements of Hank Brown, the best college president you’ve never...
Who (or what) is John Adams? a) A rather pricey but good beer. b) Amy Adams’ brother. c) The second president of the United States. If you picked a or b, then, boy, has...
A recent survey of Britons under the age of 20 reported that more than 20 percent of them believe Winston Churchill, Richard the Lion-Hearted and Florence Nightingale were fictional characters, but that Robin Hood,...
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