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December 26th, 2019
By: Jordan Lancaster – washingtonexaminer.com – December 26, 2019 Administrators tracking someone’s personal cellphone to monitor their location sounds like something the Communist Party might do in China. But it’s happening right here. Multiple colleges across the country have started tracking the exact location of their students at all times, according to the Washington Post. In a move that school administrators claim will...
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November 15th, 2019
By: Julie Roys – julieroys.com – September 4, 2015 A recent survey found that only 25% of public school parents support Common Core, the controversial national standards for English-language arts and math created in 2009 and currently adopted by 43 states. Part of this lack of enthusiasm likely stems from the frustration some feel over the cumbersome methods required by the...
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November 6th, 2019
By: Dr. Corey Miller – stream.org – November 4, 2019 I am a Christian thinker who is committed to persuading university students and faculty of the merits of Christianity. I recently spent two hours talking to a classroom full of students studying atheism at the invitation of the professor who teaches it. That’s because Portland State University Professor Peter Boghossian isn’t afraid to...
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October 7th, 2019
By: Thomas Lindsay, Ph.D. – texaspolicy.com – May 31, 2019 Too many students feel afraid to speak honestly on campus for fear of offending someone, a new national survey of college students says. University censorship regimes are teaching some students not only to live with but to embrace the conformism of thought inculcated through university speech codes, speaker dis-invitations, “safe spaces,” “trigger...
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September 19th, 2019
By: Todd Starnes – stream.org – September 19, 2019 In my new book, Culture Jihad: How to Stop the Left From Killing a Nation, I issued a call to action. I urged gun-toting, Bible-clinging patriots to be men and women of courage. Click here to get my book. And that’s exactly what a group of high school football fans did the other day at...
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September 12th, 2019
By: Walter E. Williams – townhall.com – September 11, 2019 Just when we thought colleges could not spout loonier ideas, we have a new one from American University. They hired a professor to teach other professors to grade students based on their “labor” rather than their writing ability. The professor that American University hired to teach that nonsense is Asao B. Inoue,...
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September 10th, 2019
By: Ryan W. Miller – USAToday.com – September 9, 2019 Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren are already vowing to do something about student loan debt. This is why the 1.6 trillion dollar issue could play a big part in the 2020 election. Just the FAQs, USA TODAY Princeton sits atop the rankings for best colleges yet again. For the ninth straight year,...
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September 10th, 2019
By: Brandon Ambrosino – politico.com – September 09, 2019 At Liberty University, all anyone can talk about is Jerry Falwell Jr. Just not in public. “When he does stupid stuff, people will mention it to others they consider confidants and not keep it totally secret,” a trusted adviser to Falwell, the school’s president and chancellor, told me. “But they won’t rat him out.”...
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September 9th, 2019
By: Louis Markos – christianitytoday.com – August 19, 2019 In the fall of 2018, I spoke at Mars Hill Academy, a classical homeschooling co-op in Lexington, Kentucky. It began in 1995 and offers classes in Latin, Western civilization, rhetoric, and worldview, as well as English, math, and science. A cynic might have warned me that I would be greeted by insular...
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August 20th, 2019
By: Pew Research Center – pewsocialtrends.org – August 8, 2019 The Growing Partisan Divide in Views of Higher Education Americans see value in higher education – whether they graduated from college or not. Most say a college degree is important, if not essential, in helping a young person succeed in the world, and college graduates themselves say their degree helped them grow...
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