Author: Charles J. Russo, University of Dayton Photo from article Religious School History & Legal Challanges We may be hesitant to support state funding of faith based, private, charter schools. Taking public funds could invite…
Professors and Politics: What the Research Says
From Inside Higher Ed: DeVos accusation that faculty members seek to tell students what to think renews debate, on which research is plentiful. Studies say professors lean left but challenge idea that this results in…
Liberal professors outnumber conservatives nearly 12 to 1,…
From the Washington Times: Conservatives out numbered
South Dakota’s Efforts to Protect Speech on Campus…
Author: Frederick M. Hess Free Speech Hess, F. M. (2019, June 24). South Dakota’s Efforts to Protect Speech on Campus Could Be a Model for the Nation. Retrieved from National Review: https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/06/south-dakota-campus-free-speech-protections/
Life in Schools
Authors: Pete McLaren McLaren offers an overview of Critical Pedagogy. Life in Schools--Preface Life in Schools--Part 3 McLaren, P. (2003). Life in Schools: An Introduction to Critical Pedagogy in the Foundations of Education (4th ed.).…
How the Right Learned to Loathe Higher Education
Author: Kim Phillips-Fein Kim Phillips-Fein directs our attention to frustration of the right with elitist colleges. Phillips-Fein highlights higher education’s concentration on cultural change. She asserts curriculum should focus on critical assessment development, job readiness,…
Guided by a Red Star: Ed Schools bring…
Author: Ashley Thorne Schools of Education across the country have been engaging with Critical Pedagogy (Paulo Freire). Marxism including the radical ideology of Che Guevara is adopted and promoted. In Guided by a Red Star,…
Marxists in Schools of Education Respond to NAS…
Author: Ashley Thorne Marxists in Schools of Respond (a follow-up to the previous article), offers responses from leftist readers. The responses further highlight the sentiment of teachers coming out of U.S. Colleges of Education: “it’s…
Conservatives in the Academy
Author: Jonathan Marks Marks lists the results from a large study (n = 20,771) of full-time university faculty. The study reflects that faculty is “more liberal than they were in decades past”. An unsettling aspect…
Two Victories for Academic Freedom
Author: Peter Bonilla Bonilla present two court cases which upheld instructors write to free speech and academic freedom. Mike Adams of University of North Carolina at Wilmington and John McAdams had their rights and reputations…
For a Dissatisfied Public, Colleges’ Internal Affairs Become…
Author: Karin Fischer Dissatisfied Public Fischer, K. (2019, February 18). For a Dissatisfied Public, Colleges’ Internal Affairs Become Fair Game. Retrieved from The Chronicle of Higher Education: https://www-chronicle-com.ccl.idm.oclc.org/interactives/Trend19-Intrusion-Main Photo credit: Flames in article