Steve Balch remembers Donald Kagan, a scholar and academic leader, and one of higher education’s most noble citizens.
史蒂夫·鲍尔奇记得唐纳德·卡根,他是一位学者和学术领袖,也是高等教育界最高尚的公民之一。
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The United Nations-sponsored Human Rights Council’s recent report on racial discrimination delivers a torrent of social justice jargon to indict the U.S. system as critically flawed, omitting any discussion of behavioral factors that contribute to racial inequality.
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Adam Ellwanger believes that the left conquered K-12 education by focusing on teaching technique and style, while traditionalists obsessed over curriculum content.
Adam Ellwanger认为,左派通过关注教学技术和风格征服了K-12教育,而传统主义者则痴迷于课程内容。
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A review of Minds Wide Shut: How the New Fundamentalism Divides Us," Gary Saul Morson, Morton Schapiro, Princeton University Press, 202, pp. 289, $28.00 hardcover.
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While “wokeness” attracts students starved for purpose and meaning, it fails to produce people whose excellent personal qualities are self-evident. Liberal education does just that.
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Can something as serious as the assault on liberal education be played for laughs? Political scientist Fred Baumann finds that Scott Johnston’s Campusland and Andrew Pessin’s Nevergreen take different approaches to the campus gloom, with disparate results.
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David Bolotin’s attempt to provoke individual reflection rather than reform the political community, may moderate our ambition, ease our despair, and temper our expectations while stiffening our resolve.
David Bolotin试图激发个人反思,而不是改革政治社区,这可能会缓和我们的野心,缓解我们的绝望,在坚定我们决心的同时缓和我们的期望。
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{"title":"Scientific Dissent: Reception and Fate of Premature Claims and Hypotheses","authors":"E. Hook","doi":"10.51845/34.4.23","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51845/34.4.23","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35247,"journal":{"name":"Academic Questions","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42124601","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-11-01DOI: 10.1007/s12129-000-1042-8
S. Ravindran
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Most of the problems in higher education are rooted in an unexamined rejection of Western civilization's moral tradition. This malady requires moral correction and meaningful accountability.
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