October 2012
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My Teacher, Jacques Barzun
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Jacques Barzun, 1907-2012
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Intellectual Standards = a Politics of Exclusion?
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Why Did ‘Academically Adrift’ Strike a Chord?
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The Beltway For-Profit Witch Trials
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Washington Hastens the Decline of For-Profits
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Pleasure Island
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The Online Ban in Minnesota
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Student Voices
The Candidates Flunk Education Policy -
Common Core Mandates Will Harm Critical Thinking
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Yale’s New Low and the Sad Saga of Wendy Murphy
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Self-Esteem vs. Resilience
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Why Size Matters in College Preferences
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Trickle Down Racial Double Standards
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How the Colleges Skew U.S. History
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Universities Are Vocational Schools
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A ‘Magisterial’ Work on Affirmative Action
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Campus Due Process, Obama-Style
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We Don’t Need a Different “Affirmative Action”
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Justice Kennedy and Affirmative Action
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The Perils of Student Choice
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Want to Hear Obama? Just Say You Support Him
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Left-Right Agreement on Affirmative Action?
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Harvard Botches a ‘Cheating’ Scandal
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Look What they’ve Done to U.S. History
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Plagiarism and Feelings at Amherst
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Three Pell Grant Scams
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In History—the Obsession with Race, Class and Gender