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In Slate, Sara Mosle offers an interesting review of veteran neoconservative education guru Diane Ravitch's new book, in which Ravitch a...

Now we know the very first target of the Obama Administration's discrimination investigations of local school districts: This obvious di...

Newsweek explains in " Why We Must Fire Bad Teachers " that: It takes a certain kind of teacher to succeed at a KIPP school or at ...

He's been knocking on the door for a few years, but Lebanese-Mexican communications monopolist Carlos Slim is now Forbes ' official...

I've been pointing out for years that the theory and practice of disparate impact is fundamentally catastrophic to American public educa...

From my Taki's Magazine column " Zachary Mason and the Legacy of Borges: " In synopsis, The Lost Books of the Odyssey , a lap...

When I was a kid, it was noticeable that young people were taller on average than their parents: better nutrition, antibiotics, and all that...

Good movie . Still, giving it the "Best Picture" award is going to raise expectations a little too high among the many who have ye...

The triumph of Avatar at the box office suggests than a pleasant era is ending that we didn't even notice. Going to the movies has been...

Doubling the number of Best Picture nominations without doubling the number of Best Director nominations simply predestined five of the ten ...

John Taylor Gatto writes : I’ve yet to meet a parent in public school who ever stopped to calculate the heavy, sometimes lifelong price thei...

From the NY Times Magazine " Building a Better Teacher ," which argues for better training of teachers: Lemov himself pushed for d...

NYT genetics reporter Nicholas Wade has a new article with the self-explanatory title " Human Culture, an Evolutionary Force ," us...

In volume 2 of the Oxford History of the American People , written in 1964, Samuel Eliot Morison speculates in a section on James K. Polk...

In the latest Noose News, the University of California at San Diego, that cauldrom of white supremacy, where white undergrads make up about ...

The opening of my new Taki's Magazine column: What’s the long-term future of spectator sports? With the conclusion of the Winter Olym...

Here's the opening of my new VDARE.com column : As I've been rereading Professor Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison's three-volume Ox...

Is there any way to make Winter Olympic sled sports, such as the bobsled, luge, and skeleton, more gripping on TV? As far back as I can reme...