American education has one job: to educate. And it’s flunking. Probably no one would dispute that. From collapsing K–12 literacy rates to bloated, ideologically driven university curricula, the U.S. is producing a generation of poorly educated—often outright uneducated—citizens. Plenty of blame has rightly landed on K–12 schools and universities. But there’s another player quietly contributing […]
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What the College Board did to American history two years ago it has now done to European history: erase and contort. Writing at the National Review Online’s The Corner, Stanley Kurtz makes clear what is at stake: “The curriculum will shape textbooks and the way in which all high school and college students are taught about […]
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The New York Times’ college admissions blog The Choice hosted four days of questions for the President of the College Board. The questioners aren’t pulling any punches: I always try to give the benefit of the doubt, but is the College Board really nonprofit? Why does testing cost so much? Where does the money go? […]
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